The Cairo bulletin., 1873-10-11

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grsvatcd, and cramps set in and the vom
iting and purgng become more watery
and the iprostrstions and codness deepen
into collapse, which may be fatal. Where
in docs cholera differ Same answer. In
the rice water discharges or evacuations
the greater tendency to collapse will
blurncss, dyspnea, supprcssions Of urine
in cholera. Essentially, therefore, only
in rapidty and severity. This is the
opinion Of the physicians of the Dutch
East India Company in 1929, and the same
physicians declare cholera to be epidemic
Cholera morbus and the past summer ha,
convinced many Of our ablest physicians
of the truthfnlnoss of this position. Ep.
edemic cholera morbus would be an ap.
propriase name for the past summer chol.
era Among the predisposing causes Of
this cholera is warm weather, damp, low,
ill-ventilsted residences, and among the
direct causes lie indigestible food, such as
unripe frui. or food in excess of the dc.
msnds Of the physical body for a healthy
supply in warm weather; sudden changes
OF temperature checking preparations.
These causes operate by relaxing the
mucous membrane, and exciting the
liver, thus loading the intestinal canal
with gastric and intestinal juices and bile,
which needs only unripe fruit or excess
OF food to precipitate paristaltic actions
therefore, vomiting and purging result.
Now the ejecta, If carefully examined,
will in most cases be found to be sour.
showing undoubtedly that carbonic acid
gas is present. The insensible vapor that
is continually passing off from our bodies
is loaded with carbonic acid; therefore
it is probable that cholera, cholera morbus,
etc, are but poisoning, more or less gen.
orally, by csrbonic acid.
This bile when excessive is feebly aka
line, and carbonic acid neutralizes this al
kalinity, and thus liberates the hillary
acids, and thus are produced many of the
summer diarrheas.
And when these conditions are exces-
sive produce rice water discharges of suii-
ciently persistent and severe, Thus we
have diarrheo, cholera morbus or cholera,
according to the extent of the carbonic acid
poisoning. There are certain localities
and years where and when the tendency to
THE form of disease is very marked. These
years are when we have much spring rain,
and the summer setting in warm. This
produces much csrbonic acid gas in the at.
mosphere, aud this tends to debili.ate the
physical body, and so only little rregu-
lsrity in eating and drinking, or sudden
change of temperature, is necessary to
bring on an attack of cholera morbus. |
Thi' local condition may become general,
and then We have epidemic cholera NOR
bus, 4 {. cholera or carbonic acid poison
ing)
When the atmosphere is loaded with
,srbonic acid, and saturated with hot vapor
IN q negative electric condition, as 10 the
Ease in cholera years and cholera localities,
the slightest violation Of the laws of health
precipitate an attack of the prevailing d.
sease. Those persons whose habits have
already deprived them Of vigorous health
will DO among the frs. victims of any cpl
dsmic, hence the great mortality among
the intemperato in all cholera
diseases. The changes which pur-
ry the air, are defective
when the cholera prevails. The at
nospheric impurities lin superabundance
carbonic acid act as q ferment upon
rgsnic impurities. Then organic impu.
tiles are the n sterials out Of which chol-
ra POISON is generated. Hence, the sus-
ep,ibility Of certain localities and the
EemPtion Of others, according to the soil
'lations, atmospheric conditions, and
abits and cleanliness Of the people.
If cholerne cholera morbus, sporadic
pidemic American, African or Asiatic
holera are but various degrees of car G
onic acid poisoning which results from t
reventable causes, we can and should g
ecome acquainted with these causes and :
leans Of prevention.
The cholera Of 1873 i. explainable upon t
lis supposi.ion. The late spring rains
lcreased the amount Of hes.ery vapor, /
le hot summer bursting suddenly upon Q
brought forward rapidly vegetation c
ID premature fruits and vegetables. In
10 South these conditions culmina.ed :
'ous the time Of the summer freshets, p
ID SO, altogether, being favorable time Il
cholera morbus 10 assume fatal type .
ID became epidemic. The directions Of !,
70 prevailing winds and storms bore east. .
ard, 10 the east along the lines Of travel O
ent this disease and ragged in those towns II
I'd cities where its main element was
ost abundant, as in the carboniferou. II
III Of Nashville, Mount Vernon, b
C., but took no foothold in the P
INDY soil Of Louisville or Cairo, and this a
lould teach US citizens of Cairo tha. un- =
IS by filth We especially invite the chol- A
u, we shall never be troubled with an II
oidemlc of this disease. About the time q
40 cholera scare had subsided, along ;,
ONES anoihe: scourge that is the shadow I
one In Cairo, but terrible one in some &c
our southern cities. Yellow fever fre. p
uehiIy follows cholera, but they never !,
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