Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-24
CHOLERA.
What You Had Better Do if You Don i
Want to Die With it.

what You Had Better Do if You Don t
Want to Die With it.
Buffalo, n. Y, suffered more from the
cholera of 40 and 81 than any other
city in the United States, with perhaps
the exception of Sandusky. During
those two memorable years I was prac-
tlclng my profession in Buffalo, and
treated more than hundred fatal cases,
and perhaps an equal number that re-
covered, besides two or three hundred
cases of cholerine, SO called. I pub
hshed some papers on the Z" causes, pre-
ventlon and treatment of cholera" the
result Of my observations during those
unhappy years. Now that we are again
threatened with the fearful malady. I
will suggest some preventive measures.
During the year 1913, not less than
twenty-five millions of human beings
persisted, in Europe alone, from the
plague. England was almost depopu-
lated. Various preventive measures
were adopted. One much resorted to
was hanging a cross on each house, with
God have mercy on us!" inscribed
upon it. Another means in which those
wretched populations cherished un-
bounded confidence was peculiar en-
ployment of prayers. Ten persons cried
g God have mercy on us p all at one
time, until they were hoarse and ex-
hausted. But before they gave out, ten
others began, SO that day and night the
cry of agony assembled increasingly to
Heaven. Meantime their yards and
streets were hummocked with indescri-
bable filth. Kitchen offal, dead cats
and dogs, and every other conceivable
kind of filth, sent up reeking, sicken
ing vapor. In reading the history of
those fearful times, we are apt to think
that if, IN addition to their prayers. thev
had cleaned their houses and streets. It
might have been better. PRAYER is a
good thing, but as means of prevent
ing the plague or cholera, cleanliness is.
to say the least, very important adj
iunct.
Pure air and water are pretty sure
preyentives of cholera. Of the hosts
who died in Buffalo during the years re-
ferred to, there were not TWENTY-FIVE
cleanly, intelligent people. A peculiar
dlarrhea known as cholerine attacked
our better class of native citizens some
tunes, but with the exception of few
lnvallds and old people among this class,
few died of cholera.
IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS.
Clean your cellars, and distribute
lime IN all the corners and damp places.
Make sure of your drains, traps, cess
pools, and privies, and use lime and
copperas freely.
Clean your yards and streets, and
keep them clean. Use lime in all doubt
full places.
Use whitewash all about your houses,
your passage-halls, your closets. and
then ventilate thoroughly day and night.
Keep your skins clean by FREQUENT
bathing, and change your flannel under
clothes frequently.
Let your diet be the usual beef, NUT
ton, bread, potatoes, and garden vegeta-
bles, though cucumbers are not tit to
eat under any circumstances.
Go to bed early, and, in brief, take
care of yourself.
The cholera is blessing. During
the cholera years, the general health of
the community is better than usual. be-
cause of the more thoughtful attention
given to personal habits.
L remember that, in a short street in
Buffalo, there was one large old house
occupied by twelve poor families. This
was at the foot of slight elevation.
while in the same street, but little re-
moved, therewere fourteen neat cottages.
occupied mostly by thrifty mechanics.
During the cholera season there were
thlrty-six deaths in the tenant-house-
the largest mortality in any house in the
city; while III the neat double row of
cottages there was not single death.
Cleanliness and judicious diet saved
the mechanics. Nastiness, whisky and
a bad diet killed the others.-Dr. Die
LetOis.