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

We continue cur extracts from Or. Bow
Iing's paper on the late visitation of cholera
to Nashville.
PREVENTION OF CHOLERA.
DR.. Bowling boldly assumes the position
that filth sis not locslizing cause of chol-
era, or . cause without localization, or any
sort of q cause" Filth, as "localiziDg
cause" Is connected with yellow fever and
cholera; SO is malaria; and as an exciting
cause, waters holding organic matters in
SOLUTION figures conspicuously. But, says
DR.. Bowling, "when We come to the treat
ment. we will find that these ideas modify
or control it." DR.. Bowling quotes DIR.
Drake as asserting that the clean places and
the dirty ones Jared alike at Cincinnati in
1882, ard adds: "8ut then, it must be
allowed, if filth possesses the power at
tributed to it, though it exists but at one
or two places 10 city, it might send of
exhslations that would faint the atmos-
phere of cesn places. But we hold, If
fifth can operate as focalizing cause
of cholera in June, 1873, it ought
to have done it in some OF the
Junes since 1850, which it did no., in this
city. II The filth of Nashville could become
= qocalizing cause of cholera in Sept, 1866,
the filth of September in some of the long
years since the introduction of cholera in
this country in 1852, on hit TO have operated
to the same end, which it did not. If filth
only becomes actiVe whsn cholera breathes
upon it, Whit would seem to be the case,
If it have any effect under any circumstar-
ces, then cholera affects the filth as it does
the people, and neither filth nor the people
affect cholera. 1t is well known tia: the
most offensive places IN cities TO sight and
smell, are the most healthy in a cholera
season. 1t has never been known, L believe,
to attack the operatives or the managers OF
livery stablos. This bad been asserted in
Cincinnati in 1882, and we had it exam
insd into in 1850, in 1866, and during the
la epidemic in this ciCy, and believe these
places are exempt, aud, as far as l have
been able TO ascertain, cOw-houses, the
ilthiess houses in the world, are exempt
Portions Of every city, more than
others, become the repositories Of
the eruuiG Of slaughtered ami
mails, aud where soap factories natu.
rally find foot-hold, aud fill the air for q
great distance with sufocatiDg stencil
Cholera shuns such places as naturally as
folks. We have visited, in person, the
street-car and other stables of the city-one
at the corner of Broad and Spruce streets
exists in the midst of filth. No cholera al
any stable"
The Evansville Journal of July Is says
Of the cholera at Mount Vernon, Ind: II
has almost depopulated the town. All the
people who could get away have left. The
banks and business houses a,e all closed
and the town seems without population.
Every person in the place has had cholera
symptoms, and of some large families only
two members are left. The city
is a clean one, and on one of the highest
points between Evansville and Cairo"
These facts DR.. Bowling points to as
triumphsntly sustaining bis position that
Hfilth is not localizing cause of cholera, OF
a cause without localizatioD, or any sort OF
cause"
CAN WATER EXCITE CHoLERAP
DR.. Bowling said in 1S5'', that those who
drank the strong limestone vat of our
city springs Jared worse than others, and
tina same fact has been observed in the late
epidemic; but, says he, "what we said then