Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-15
CHOLERA AND SULPHUR.

| last may be found SDort drUCless onS 1--WE
the Louisville COuTier-JourndI and the
other from the Knoxville Chronicle, which
encourage the belief that sulphur is an an
tidote to the cholera infection or poison,
whatever that may be. Sulphur, mercury
and arsenic are easily volatilised and dlf-
fused through the system, water and The
atmosphere, and are powerful agents,
whether considered in their chemical rela-
lations or theiI less understood action on
animal and vegetable life. In scientific and
skillful hands their efficiency has made
them the backbone Of the healing art. a
| chronic case of chills and fever yields to
solution of arsenic when all other remedies
fail to destroy or dislodge the parasite that
preys upon the system Of the patient. The
| itch insect may be killed and the disease
cured by an ointment of mercury, sulphur
or arsenic; or what is better, by solution
/ of the last named metal. DR.. Ramsey, OF
Knoxville, says
ga number of years ago visitation OF
endemic cholera occurred at memphis,
Tenn, and several cases OF collapse were
relieved and life preserved by the bold use
of sulphuric acid and quinine, hyPoderml-
cally administered by pr. Almon BROOKS,
now of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Indeed,
DIR. Brooks met with such success that he
did not regard case as troublesome pro-
uided he ,ods called IN collapse"
The above statement may be an over es-
innate of the renediaEpow Of sulphuric
acid and quinine, however administered !"
by DIR. Brooks. The information is obscur-
ed and lessened by the remark that the rem
edies were ''hypodermically administered"
When one lifts little skin on the point OF
lancet, and inserts under it particle OF
cowpox virus, the poison is hypodern'tcdtty
administered. We suspect that DR.. Brooks
| gave lis cholera patients the benefit Of sui
phur and quinine epidermically if the skin
had any part in receiving the medicine.
| TEpiderm means on the skin, and hypoderm
under it, We like DR.. Herring's plan OF
having little sulphur in each sock or
stocking. Il is needless to say that sulphur
retted hydrogen" is formed or any other
compound. Doctors are altogether too
fond of using classical words and profess
ional terms. The true way is to state facts
as plainly as possible, and try to give to.
these facts their exact meaning.
We copy from the Nashville DiSpG tch, of
Oct. 10, 1866, an interesting and instruc-
tive article presenting an historical view Of
cholera in this city. The germs of the NAL
ady did not reach Nashville till the sum-
mer of 1888, &nd whole year aft r it was
very malignant 10 Buffalo, N. Y. Il is
waste Of breathing force to talk so much
about epidemic, local and sporadic cholera,n
would be as sensible to recognize without
proof twenty different sorts Of pure ws'er.
or pure sulphur. 1t is not ct all probable
that the nelo pestilence which first appear
ed in Buffalo in 1892, had its origin in any
netc gases, eaters, or minerals produced
in that city in that year. Its air, water,
minerals in water, plants and animals, were
all the same IN 1882, as they were in all the
years before with DO cholera. This is a
plain view of the physical and chemical as
poets of the origin of cholera. They utterly
fail TO account for the phenomenon, either
in Buffalo in 1882, or in his city in 1888, or
in 1866. Let us assume thai the dis urb-
snce has its origin, not in any disor-
ganized gaseous substance or min
eral in solution, but in living
germs like those that form mould in bread,
dry-rot in the heart of timber, when appa-
rently sound, and mildew on damp linen
in tight dark chest. This whole class of
parasites is destructive in its Natural func-
lions, while is parent cells are microsco-
pic. One can easily find wees on the
common of Nashville that had their origin
in Europe or Asia. Germs as small IS
those in puffball may be carried in an
east wind that flows some times for days
in succession, first from Asia to Europe,
and then from Europe to America. It is
not alone MUSHROOMS and tosdstoOls that
grow On 2 duEg-heap. Filth, warmth and
moisture breed organisms by the millions,
which 1t lie wind or breeze, may spread
far and near. AS sulphur
is fatal to cholera parasites, and is not 50
dangerous to human life as arsenic ami
mercury, We recommend it as protection
for exposed persons. Avoid all predisposing
causes of the disease, Of which fear and
filth may be named as most common. FIRE.
quent bathing and ADDITIONS, with strict
temperance in eating, drinking and exer-
else, will be almost certain to cast off the
spores, or seeds, that fasten on the bodies
of some, and multiply till the bodies are
dea', and probably longer. The heat of
the human body is high enough even in
cold weather for the cells of mlldew and
cholera morbus to multiply indefinitely.
But outside and off the body they fail to
grow.