The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-06-18

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The Great ASiatic PluEue and rs
Medical n eIeOrOIogY.
IRON the N. 7. HerAld) a1
The tldings that have already reached
US OF the arrival OF the Asiatic cholera in
the Lower Mississippi Valley should ex-
cite Immediate attention and stimulate US
to..tho most exhaustive sanitary preCau-
lion. The uncertainty which attends the
Inarch OF this pestllencc and our ig-
uorance Of the geographical belts which
Il will devlstate are among tho clrcum-
stances that lend terror to It's approach.
Until 1850 the cholera had steadily and
persEstently refused 10 cross the Equator
and invade the Southern Hemisphere,
and confined lis ravages 10 the populous
zones which gave 1t birth. It was first
observed, rs an epidemic, In the month Of
May, In Bengal, in the year 1917, although
II had existed from time immemorial.
Strange 10 soy that, although its progress
WAS frat uorthward, 1t afterwards took q
direction contrary 10 that OF the mon
soous Of India aud ovorspread the
southern and southwestern districts.
It's first landing on our shores was sim
ultaueOusly at New York and Quebec in
1882, whence 1t rapidly spread along
the chain Of the st. Lawrence Valley
aud lakes and by ship from New York to
New Orleans. From the delta OF the Mis-
sissippi Il took, its way up stream to 81.
Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati and Pitts
burgb, and having Then, seemingly, re-
cruited It's deadly power and mallgnity,
crossed the Alleghanies to baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York, 1t was re:
narkablo that, although it had reached
Quarantine previously, its chief virulence
was manifested alter It's recurvlug through
the Mississippi Valley and its rearrival at
New York. But once at New Orleans II
shot across thu country 10 Texas beioreit
became epidemic at the Crescent City;
aud from St. Louis it stalked westward 10
Fort Leavenworth, Independence and
Fort Laramie, near the Rocky Mountains,
and attacked the Indians before 1t had
reached BelleViile, within o short distance
NJ tho city. Itseemed to overleSp points
contiguous to the scenes Of epidemic US II
borne by. some powerful impulse. And,
after sweeping the vast continental basin
from the Rocky Mountains TO the ALE
ghany SUBMITS 1t was arrested by the sea;
Tor II hardly affected the Atlantic sea-
board lying under the shadow Of the high.
est ridges Of the Appalachian chain.
These facts haYc led 10 the belief that
the medical: geography Of the diseases
locates its expansion along the great
sweep Of the equatorial current oil moist
southwest and southeast winds. tits
SHOWN that these humid winds, supposed
by some to DO the DETECTION Of the trade
winds into the Mississippi Valley, pene.
lrate to high latitudes in the central part OF
our Continent. Volney first pointed out
this detection as beginning in the Bay OF
Honduras and attaining southeasterly
direction at Vera Cruz RedHeld thought
that II was 10 this southGrly and south
eastetly wind the Mississippi Valley owed
its fertility. Mr.. Blodget also determined
that southeasterIy winds prevail IN this
section, and suggested that they might be
,lue 10 an impulse not wholly at the coast,
hut in the interior. 1t has been ascertain.
cd that at Natche2 the winds are mostlY
soulheasterly; and, according to DR..
EuRleman, from April to October,
south and southeast Winds prevail
1t II, Louis, During the celebrated
cholera epidemic Of 1854 i was found
that southerly winds and Gains prevailed.
The extension Of the disease to the cities
VI Mexico and Texas, It's ascending above
Tue sea,tor chihuahua live thousand feet
liPhl, and 70 . still greater elevation In
The district OF PasO del Forte on the Rio
Graude, It's invasion OF the west and the
Plains and It's actual extension TO CaliioF.
ala at the very time the southern States
almost wholly escaped 1t, are oil clrcunl-
stances confirming the belief that II fol-
lows the equatorial Air currents. As the
latter arc known to reach the lottiesl
mountain tops, so the great epidemic, IN
like the yellow fever, 10 known TO disre-
gard attitudes and has rpged at time with
great violence on the snowy slopes Of the
lIimalayas and 1t ETZerounl, In Armenia
six thousand ono hundred feet above ths
ocean.
Ii was long since remarked by an cml-
uent physician that the iountAin-head OF
all sanitary and epidemic science was ~
the application Of meteOrology. 1t has
been Conclusively shown that the recur.
renee Of yellow lever, in a series Of years
from 1903 TO 1861, has never been known
when the average thermometer at three
o'clock was under seVenty.ninG degrees
during the summer, and that the extent
and vIrulence Of the disease was proper
toned TO iGs oscillations above or below
that point. The Gains Of the cholera
Summer Of 1891 IN England, and, con-
joined with this fearful atmospheric still
ness, the seemingly intermtnablc moist
ness that overhung the .illinted island
were phenomena which historically
marked the epidemic, aud as the wind
rose the disease began it, retreat. II has
been seriously and strongly argued that
The cyclical changes that occur on the
solar photoSphere, and the accompanying
periods Of maximum Gun spOtS, by Affect
lug the oceanic evaporation and tempera'
lure OF the earth, underlie the various cp
,demic cycles; and some Of tho most emf.
uent scientists Of Europe aud America
reasoning upon thgss premises, predicted
hearty two years ago, the frequency and
mAllgnAncy Of theCAttle and horse Cpl
denies Of last Fall and Winter. -'.r