Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-15

we rep3at n0a. tnat tn class VI PcoPio
who drank spring water is precisely that
most obnoxious to cholera from other
csuses. blackberry sprir G, where the dis
ease began, offers water delightfully."- cool,
but having goodbye to 1t thst fingers
long with the drinker. Poor Mary Payne
hsd drunk It for years, and 1t seemed ur-
natural that it should go back upon her.
Mrs. Murray and family (white) lived near
this spring and drank its water. After the
death of Mary Payne, Mrs. Murray moved
ND on Market street, between Church and
Broad, and opened boarding-house. She
and two sons nearly grown, few days a.
ter occupied the same grave, their last din
ner being enriched by snaps and other veg
etables." TIE following is DR.. Bowling's
conclusion:
ssNeither malaria nor filth here had any,
thing whateverto co in localizing cholera,
nor in our opinion had water. The little
apple girl, on Union street, and Mrs. Jones
and child, on Summer street--among the
first victims-drank hydrant water while
the river was at high tide, and whose
contents were chiefly rain-water, while the
colored people Of blackberry Spring drank
of that water. If any of these things local
lied the disease, art might abate them; but,
| in truth, they do not, and whoever insists
that any one of these does so, misdirects
his force, mentally and scientifically, to
consummate self The facts
are all against him, twist them and torture
| them as he may. Are there, then, no local
| izing causes? Yes, one-DESTITUTIoN
| What is the great preventive? MONEY!
| MONEY, - wo have reiterated for more than
/ forty years, to bar out the ferocious invader;
and, thank God, we have lived to see mo.
new drive out the arch fiend from the haunts
| where be held high carnival, and our citi
zens-thanks to them-spill it like water tc
that glorious end"
To the question,
WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE SAVED ALIVE
DR.. Bowling responds as follows:
eIt was the great johnson who said, if the
people could agree, there would not be al
! occupied throne in Europe twenty-foul
| hours after the agreement; and so, l am
sure. il PHYSICIANS in the United State.
could agree upon asserted facts concerning
this pestileEce, it could never get foot-holC
| again upon our continent. But until the
millennium, this agreement will hardly occur
| Every physician / have seen in this city since
the cholera, assures me that it is his belle
that no man Or woman or child dies Of chol
era who is not oVertaken by that disease witt
fruit or vegetables, or one or more ANNA
products, as milk, butter, cheese, or, honey
in the stomach. That if threatened people
will religously avoid these things, and KEEP
little paregoric by them, and in the event
of disrrhpa, take a tesspoonful Of it, and
repeat it after each operation, being in bed
not one will die. Not one died here in 1850
1854, 1856, or 1873, that observed this rule
We predicted, at the beginning Of each Of
| these visitations, that not one would die WIKI
obeyed this simple rule, and the prediction
in each ease was verified by the result
none died. So simple and inexpensive ar
expedient, and one capable Of saving all
every one-demonstrated in all three year;
to be ADEQUATE to this end, and now thor
ougbIy believed by all of our leading physi
Clans, and doubtless oheyed by thirty thou
sand people in this city and country during
the late epidemic, to be sneered at, betfAy'
defective moral mechanism in the scorner
l lCoo ouoNCPSAOhASy
TO cholera than to any other epidemic in
fuence. Let the citizens OF any town ca
as they may, and live as they may, during
| cholera among them, and not above three
per cent will die; so that after its departure
ninety seven gormapdiJeIs out OF hun
dred might present themselves alive an(
fat, as demonstrable evidence that german
d sing was the best possible p-ophyiactl'
against chOlerai 1t must be upon some
such philosophy that very eminent men In
sist on fruits and vegetables as good thing
to be eaten during the prevalence OF cholera
Nor can l find anywhere that they are ex
Guided. In every case, Terminating Il
death here, in the person of any one gener
ally known, it was as generally known tina
the party belonged to The vegetable ant
fruit eaters. Ice cresm and Strawberries
carried off numbers, and snap beans wer'
as fatal as arsenic. Buttermhk was toun'
almost unerring in It's death-aim. Black
berries were sure shot, but cabbage an6
potatoes, being more easily procured
were the most fatal. Two poo
little boys over the river (publishe'
in our papers at the time,) went a little dis
tauca from home to plum-tree, and pro
cured and ate quantity of the fruit. Th'
little fellows were both found dead in tn
path homeward, with evident signs of choler
about them. A fine little negro boy cam
into Mrs. Terrell's grocery, on South Mar
ket street at 0 A. NJ, with paper OF black
berries 10 his hand, eating them, and OF
ferred some to Mrs. TerrelPs boy. Mrs
Terrell seized the berries and threw then
in the slop-tub. The coloreG boy wa
buried that evening. Two little boys, son
of Mr.. j., Main street, Edgeheld, ate G
mulberries from a tree in their father
ward, and died the same day within an hou
of each other. An old man on Foste
street, Edgefield, boosted for many day
that ne ate as he always had; he died o
cholera. Our Janitor, at the Medical Col
lege, well on the morning of the 18th o
June, tcok two glasses of buttermilk ant
was buried the same evening. No On
was sick in his neighborhood.
"Similar instances would, if recorded
make book of many pages.
ssNew Bethel is a neat hamlet, each cot
tage having a kitchen-garden, with al
abundant growing crop OF potatoes, cab
bace, beans, corn, etc. Their Chief maI
toll me that there was no cholera there un
til the 10Th or both of June; that the dis
ease 10 the city put an end 70 work, and
being impossible to get meal or meat, th
inhabitants were forced, to prevent staTVa
ton, to resort to their gSrdens-to potatoe
and cabbage. Poor creatures they divid
ed with each other as long as meal an
meat were in the hands of any, and up t
that time they were spared; and then, be
tween the lingering death of starvation, AM
the quick exit by cholera, none could hesi
itate, ard they marched in throngs uncom
planning through their gardens to thei
graves. Two hundred people hurried int
eternity that twice as many dollars woul
have saved! Not butt what thousands coul
have been raised in hour, for men wen
about with hundreds in their hands, enquil
ing where they must leave it for the goo
of the sick,
"But all the talking, and CASING, an
printers ink, and resolving, and meeting
and discussing, aud celebrating, and burn
ing tar and birthstone on the streets to XII
the cholera -guats, did poor New Bethel n
good. We begged the deliberators to stra
collins on their backs, and alternately wal
off to the cholera jungles; it would he'll
some.
, "Vegetables? GWhv. did not DR., Hamil