Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-06-24
THEDISEAsE,APATINGsIN RASHEILLlI.
FOrty-Three Deaths were reported
.aR EY YesterdayW0@
IMPORTANT MEDICAL ADviCl
laFNctcf OIL CnOEeFN NOW H"8
Nashville and Elsewhere.
NASHVILLE, june %, 7:4OP. NJ.

Nashville ana EiSeWnere'
Messrs. Editors:' ga az
SIRs-I am glad to hand you ferpubli-
cation a very Interesting and Inow emf
nently important communication from the
pen of one of our most active, able and
distinguished medical confreres. For the
want of we'll organizedsState Board of
Health to look after our most sacred inter-
ests (health), and mitigate, if not entirely
avert, many calamitous scourges, the peo-
pie, when panic stricken by Pestilencee
and THE medical profession, ip its high
state of scientific advancement, must look
to the public press for the dissemination of
correct and established hygienic principles,
as well as for. 4 source for defense against
false INSTRUCTORS. For these reasons ff no
other, most cordially ask place in your
columns rthe communication, and would
recomm end .a more serious consideration
of the whole subject by the different au-
thorities and legislators of our State.
Very respectfully,
ALEX. B. TADLoCK, M. d.
TOD. b. TudJock, nc d.. President of the
,SKno1 County Section of The East 1ehnes-
sec Medical Society:
An editorial i'm the Press and Herald,
issued Sunday, June %, 1878, suggests this
communications a 9-as
A sentence in that editorial reads thus: !:
"The professional quibbles of the medical
philosophers have no effect upon the
scourge-except as they may affect the
treatment-and in the light Of passing
events, it is impossible for the people to
discover that the putting of an American
label upon the disease contributes any
thing to the relief Of the situation IL
Controversy is not my forte. eschew
any feeling of desire to be drawn into a
discussion savoring, in the least, of pOlem
les. But confess myself anxious to have
the truth received, in matters belonging to
my profession, as well as to points of prin-
ciple or policy belonging to other vocations
in society. Hence my temperance in
the role of fighting against choleric dis
ease having foreign origin. There is diff
ference There is difference in origin, in
treatment and in ratio of mortality.
But of most Importance is the differencei in
origin. AT Memphis, at n Nasi1ville and at
Greeneville the newspapers report pre-
valence at points of those localities where
a cause of disease is affirmed by the unpro-
fessional to have generated. Now, it may
be true that, an individual will die, alter
sickeniDg under the operations OF such q
cause, aud SO far as he is concerned, the
American or the Asiatic label will con-
tribute no relief. But, suppose the authori-
ties of either one, or all ~, of those towns
had seized upon the winter months and
destroyed the conditions in which the cause
of disease had birth, how many individuals
would have died with cholera | believe
none. Thered been no waiting winds
from Africa,s sunny plains to disseminate q
dire poison.p "a mans enemies are those
of his own household" is applicable
| to this matter, and the citizens OF. affected
towns are reponsible for the havoc amongst
them. 1t is no abstract question It's
practical, eminently lpracti tical, and nocity
| In Tennessee, East, Middle or West, ought
to be permitted to pass through such a
scourge; but if the permission is granted
| the citizens are responsible, and the medi-
| cal profession has not been permitted to do as
much good as it is capable of accomplish
| ing. " Yh.lLAE9.. .. es..b
In epidemic cholera all the cleanliness
| that can be produced will fail to stay its
march, or reduce its mortality. OF course
epidemic diseases are dependent on con-
ditions, but it has not yet occurred to man
to learn these conditions. But diseases OF
local origin are well understood by physi-
SidLS, anu Ill tut poWeI Is given GheIu ny
communities, they can prevent much bet
ter, much easier, than they can cure, dis
/ ease. a
/ Winter is the time to cleans, a town. Just
now every shower OF dirt uncovered to the
sun, is focus from which disease ema-
mates. Cover The jflth deeper rather than
| turn it over, and except when absolutely
necessary, LET foundation, building and
street excavations remain unaccompIished
for while.
| have written iurriedly, but hope that
you will give the note an official direction
that the the readers !s Of the Press qnd Heralo
is more disposed 70 ignore truth, than he i.
/ TO pay defere4ce to the profession of medi
CINE. FRANKA. RAMSEY. M. D.