, 1873-07-24

educated men, that Asiatio cholora, when it
comoo, comes like aimoom In Syrian doaort,
sweeping everything before 1t in sB deadly forcc.
But it the disease nov prevalent in certain por-
tions of Tennessee, Missouri, Ohio, aud Ken
tucky bo cholera, as It is reported, thon cholcra
has it's Vagaros li]sn othor mortal attributes and
conditions. 1t ia not strange, perhapa, that it
should have first msdo it's appearance in Now
Orleans, as 1t might be brought into tho coun-
try thoro aa we'll as ut any othor seaport. In
1849 tho cholera camo from this direction. But
tho disease Of the proHont yenr, after having
been carried to Memphis. seomod to take an Or
ratio courBo, Jumping over cities and ]argo towns,
or abandoning them With but slight visitation, !
and spreading out among the amallor towns and
villngos. Whom 1t crossed tho Ohio it attacked
the town Of Mount Vernon, Indiana, moro say-
agoly; and 80 in Missouri it pclsod out little
town cnllod Louisiana for it's victim, in both ill.,
BtanccB loaving tho largo citloB Of Cincin-
natl aud st. Louis comparatively FREQ from
itH rayagos. Ever Binco it began to-
spread, 1t has taken strongest hold upon small
settlements, and it Is from obscure villages
such as Greonvillo, Tonn., Princeton, Iud.,
and Cromwell, KY, that tho reports Of tile dis
case come most frequently. Though it long
since loft Now Orleans, tho local papers report
It as rigging in st. Jarnos, Ascension, and neigh
boring parishes. While this BoomB to DO an
anomalous condition, It ia not without roa-
Bon that the country towns suffer most
when tho clolora onco breaks out among
them. Tho great advantage OF largo
cities in dealing with tho disease
is to bo found in thoir artificial underground
drainage. 1t was long since asc.rtainod that tho
greatest danger OF infection in cholera acaaon ia
| in tho avacuations which contain the poison. In
| laTge cities, with m adequnto sewerage system,
tbeso arc quickly carried OF before they hayo
had tho timo to oxha1o their poisonous mattor,
| and tho rocoptaclos in which they aro deposited
nro immediately cleanaed with running water
III villages aud small towna, however,, thero is
no ready means Of disposing Of the
poison which makos it's appearance in
this form. Tho people generally have not
d full appreciation Of tho necossity for hurrying
1t away, aud, If thoy had, do not possesa tho
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in tho usual way, and tho poison thoy contain iB
caught up by tho air and spread about; people
inhalo 1t unsuspectingly, and 1t is thus commit
nicatod 40 gonorally and rapidly that it ontruns
all tho efforts to check it. This ia tho main I'D
vantage which citios hayo over tho country
towns in cholera times, but there arc others.
The city markets are, M rrlo, puror and better
than those Of small towns. for tho
choicest produce of tho gardens is sont
whero 1t commands tho highest. prices. Tho
quality Of now vegetables o1orts IN important
influence on tho conditions which mako people
Tho medical sorvico Of tho cities is nlso moro
efficient md experienced, and tho auxiliary n,oaua
Of caring for the sick and preventing tho spread
OF tho disoaae are superior and moro ample.
Those circumstances should commond tLom-
solves, not merely aa an explanation Of the fact
TINT tho cholera thla season In making groator
havoc in small towns than In largo cities, but "a
reason why tho residents Of tho cities should
ayoid tho gonoral rush to tho country which is
made whenever tho approach Of tho diseaBe ia
announced. 1t will bo vol to koop this in mind
If tho cholera shall thrsatou Chicago this year.
No othor city in tho country has superior moaua
for holding 1t in check.
There il alBo popular error in regard to tho
troatment Of ololora. IiB generally beloved that
tho first and most necessary thing III III astaca
Of cholera is to check tho movements Of tho bow
ols which aro tho Usual evidences OF tho diHoaHo.
T., n 4raotoo m bTn1orn bTolirtnc in fhe cnrrar,f
, number OF tho North american Reule,p, thie
manner OF proceeding IL shown to be radically
. wrong. ItiB now known TINT cholera ia poison
absorbed in tho blood by inhalation Or through
food or wRtor. A blood disease Ia thus produced
tho PARTICLES Of poison rapidly multiplying thom
solvos, aud tho copouB dachargoH aro tho efforts
. Of nature to throw OF the poisonous matter
which aa infected tho systeus. Formerly 1t was
= tho practice Of physiclana to check tho profnBt
o fluxeB by opium, aBtringonts, md atinuauts
I This practice WIS so general tint, when DR.
4 George johnson first introduced tho ney
|. md prosont theory to tho hIodico- CHI
o rurgieal soclety Of Londou, In 1900
z 1t waa received with tho utmoht dis
u favor. hoatod controversy onsued but tho 70
r suit Was that Hir Thomas Watgon, tho Prosilon
d OF tho soooty, was finally convinced, adoptet
h tho opinions OF DR.. Jollnson, and announcos
"a that tho new treatmons of tho disoaHo had boo,
d fully established by reason and experience. Th
=. now practice is to facilitate. though not Il
b, e1cite, tho discharges from the mucous surface
u and thus eliminate tho poison from tho system
10 This treatment readily oommonds itself to til