, 1873-09-14
The Disease, in All It's. Forms, Oar-
bonio-Aoid Poisoning.
Possibility that the Mi:pissippi River
Mny Become the Nilus
Of Cholera.
Cholera a Disease for Which Mnn Is
Chiefly Responsible.


pfgroenish or youowiah fluid. with rejection Of
nil food aud drink; ofton. but not always pain
In tho stomach and bowels; diarrhca, with
brownisl or yollowsh stools; debility and cold
ueBs; little or no fovor. beginning with Buoh
symptoms, II tho attaclr, not rolioyod, becomes
aggravated, cramps In tho limbs suporvono, tho
vomiting and purging become more tcatery:
pTostration and collnoss deopou into collapse,
which may DO fatal" Wherein doos oholora DIFF
fcr2 "IAe dlfforouco Is soon." he eays, Tin
tho bilious vomiting mud purging of cholora-
morbun, and tho sricc-tcater discharges OF chol-
ora; tho greater nausea In the former; much
moro tendency to collapse. with bluoncsa,
dyspnoa, end suppression Of urino, In cholora."
Essentially they only dfror in rapdity and Boyor-
ity. 1hia was the Wow taken by tho physician
OF tho Dutch Eagt Intlia Company, Who In 1920,
described cholera rs
"Er1pEa11c CHOLERA MoRBuH,"
And VIC neo no necessity for my other synonym,
Wc could tllon uao tho term endemic cholorn-
morbus with good effect.
Let ua analyzo clolora-morbuB 1ittlo:
Warm weather sonmB to pred!spoBo to 1t, willis
the direct causes ofton aro indgeatible articles
of food, as unrpo fruit, etc., o1ocss Of ordinary
food, nlddon claugo OF temperature checking
porbpirat'on." How do those four causos act 2
Tho first, " by relaxing tho MUCOUS membrano
and exciting tho liver" gives us, without doubt
ioadea intestinoa with gastric and informal
Juices mud bio; then 1t needs only fermontinR
fruit, or renction from checked persplration, to
precipitato peristaltio action in both directions,
Lea purgtug and vomiting. Lot uB go deoper.
What is tho character Of tho ejecta2 Sour.
Look at it efforvoscc ID 1t carbonio acid gas ?
Whnt il tho full Significance Of checked per-
linn nGn1 {r.ua r.$I>1 Ia 80
with carbonio acid. Then Is not tho essential
nature of cholora-morbus poisoning Of tho sys-
tom by acil,
CAHnoS1c CHIEFLY?
Tho bile ia alkaline, faebly 30 when excessive,
aad this acid neutralzcp it aud iborates t,oo ir-
ri'a.lng hillary aoids that alone would produce
dlarrllea. brown, yellow or watory muouH (rico-
Mater), according to its persistence aud soverity.
That ID cholora-morbus, md 1t ia evident that It
may 10 more Or lesH soyeEo according to the
hnlotlnt OF poisoning OF tho System by tho acid,
II. Thcre aro certain localities md years whore
and when tho tendency to this form OF disease la
very married.. 1t is goucraly In tho carly sum-
mor, MOI, when there has been much spring-rain and
tite summon sets in warm. Tho vegetation is
hurried to maturity aud immaturisy by tho su-
psrabundanco Of carbonc-acid gas in tho atmoa-
Phere., Tho effect upon tho Rystem is very do
bilitatlng, and It only needs little irregularty
OF eating, or drinking impure wator, or sudden
rooi change, to procipitato severe attack OF
cholora-morbus. This may bo 80 general at that
place IA to bo called endemic cho}ora- -morbus or
OIIoLER1NE.
Hero no now elomcnt IL aldod. oulv tho noit
poisoning Of the body is haatencd by tue marked
venosity Of tho blood from tho difficulty Of ex-
haling It's suporabundanco Of carbon. Under
s'ch circumstances tho attacks are moro severe,
for, adled to tho irritated condition Of the In
tcstincs by the forelgn acid, We have youous
stasis in tho braiu, giving us pressure upon tho
quadrigominal bodies, Which Brown-Sequard
found would increase poristaltic action OF tho
rHt1c III 1iff will },.n.
to have cramps. Cramp il the signal for tho
Mediterranean Bponge-divers to como to tho
surface and exhalo tho euperabundanco Of car
bonic acid In thoir blood: 1t is evident, then,
that if tho yenoun staBiB is great in tho BRAIN
severe vomiting aud diarrhea even to rice-water
discharges, cramps, and aspEyxia, may be prog
ent. II this il tho condition Of brain, reaction
viii BE- apt to give stupor l0ptans) and perhsps
tom il donby poisoned by carbonio acid.
III. This locul atmospheric condition may be-
como general and rain and sun alternate with an
overcast sky. Then mon walk about ia an NJ
moaphoro loadcd With carbonio gas saturated
with hot vapor, in negative electric condition,
md tho sliGhtcBt violation Of eating, drinking
Or working, prccpita.ca q most Bovere md vio-
lont attack Of so-callod cholera. When this con-
dltlon OF atmosphere Is persistent for soma
tino, especially over cties or crowds Of pilgrims
("hore an amount Of carbonio acid largely pre-
dominatos), then
THE D1sEAsE nEcoMEs Ep1pRaf1o.
What are tho clements here7 u yapory
Atmosphere, deficient IN oxygen, and ozone,
continuing much peroxide Of hydrogen, (2)
nes'etive electrical, condition, tho clouds
air from flowing to 'tho negative Garth; (s] q
Buporabundapco OF cnrbonic-acid gas in the air;
and H) systematic poisoning by these ole--
nlents combined. Tho exha!ation Of carbonto
acid is so great from the human body that
above atmospheric conditions, on q crowded boat
Or cur, to readily affect tho susceptible. Thua
VIC explain why ":rhe poison is generated by
places OF Arabia, aud why ID 1888 lit did not
On tho dispersion of tic multitude aftor Se9 2oooo
out Of 1000, 900 had dlod in eight days This ia
Of any special cholora-poibon in tho blood" and
Why 1ilnlcn intercourse has share in tho pro-
pagation Of the diaeaao, and why it may bo car
riod personally, oy cl9thing, BY currents Of air,
il tho followlng: "In 1853 tho Board Of ucalth
Of London concluded that tho meteorologicaI
changes which renow the purity Of the ar aro
defective whore cholera prevails. and ominently
SO in low, wet situations which show high
barometric pressure, Ab9enca OF ozono mud Of
electricity, in which localitios the epidomio Vas
most marked. Thay also concluded that tho
poison actcd as Jfs''neMt, and therefore takes
Direct only under congenial circumstances. Tint
tho fcrEnont boars OF begots tho poison. Houco
the susceptibility OF given locality for q chol-
era epidy,nic il somewhat III proportion to tho
above soil-1 cationB mud atmospheric conditions.
That it il duo to apoclo poison which origi-
mites among the ynporB Of uncultyatcd deltns
OF tho largo riyors Of Central India that these
nro
THE BREEDING aRouNDs'
Of the diseaAe all agree" This other fact should
ho adlotl. that cholera prevails In Inda Oh tho
suttiug In OF tho nol,soons, imnlolla.oly after
tho hoayy summor-rains. Tho air is oxcoodingly
debi!itatlng, bcng loaded with peroxide Of iy-
drogen, etc.
III this form OF the diaoaso tho brain-controe
first irritated, and tllen paralyzod. In severe
spidemics tho ir1itaton may DO entirely or chio,y
corebrsl, and thon paralysis sots in ea.ly. Thou
most prominent symptom.
Taking t1o disease in all its forms, oNolcra-
morbut. cholerino, cholera, sporadic, cnlonlic.
epidemic, American, African, OF Aa'aiio, IN I'LL Of
of its manifestations. personal, local. or atsnos-
rhero, md synlptomg, from the preliminary