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from Which must bo excluded Hpicoa, herbs cof-
fce, toa, and epirituoue liquors.
Aa a curative AGENT ho administers five droph
| OIL sugar every 1ftoun minutes ii tho case be
sovoro, tho doso is to DO Increased to ilfteen or
twonty drapB, and moro especially 80 IL tho pa
tiont bo accustomed to dissipation:
CHICAGO, July l. 1873.
Tho Southwestern Caolcrn or 1Bas
and 1SS3--1Qov II Originated and
Spread.
10 khs Editor Of lie Ne,o Yoyh Erent1g Post:
THE praBent otolora iu tho Southern and West
orn States y pursuing slle same course as tho
cholera Of 1913, with tho exception that that fol-
lowed tho course Of tho great riyors. wiii1o this
Ios Sisgy TG carried 81 tns so0f fsasn aS II A r o
1913 tho clip Gutenberg with $50
eteeragc pasHongers, aaied ., from Hamburg,
%eTs to, sholorn was hsa
Of tho Eibo; arrived ut New Orloans, after n
passago of nfty-nyo tlays, OIL tho 9Th Of Dccou-
bor; Was not subjected to quarantine, and Aoon
after ono Of her passengers died of cholera in
tho Charity Hospital. What became Of tho other
passengcrs Of tho Gutenberg no ono know or
| cared.
Second-Thc barlr Calao, from Dromon, with
\ 150 emigrants, lost eighteen Of her passengers
vomiting and pnrgiug, aud othors with yiolont
| attacks Of diarrhma. The last tleath occurred
OH tho 9TH Of November. She arrived at Now
| Orleans OIL tle 8th OF December, and WAS not
| subjected to quarantine.
Ihfrd-Tlao ship Bwanton, from Havro, hnl
| eovontoon deaths from bowel complaints on tho
voyage arrived Ut Now Orleana o., tho It'll Of
December, md on tho 12th woman Vas oarriou
complete cholore collapse. Ono OF tho discharged
passengers, who had llarrhma, walked about tho
city on tlo IT'LL went to boarding-llouso On
TIC l2.l' from whence 10 was carriea 70 tho
Oh tho 13lh., Fiyo other oasoa wore admitted to
tho hospital on tho 18th, showing that tho pas
scngors Of the swanton wero not subjected to
quarantine On tho 1ith citizenB of Now Or
| leans began to 10 ATTACKED on tho 18th there
were oght cnacs admitted to tito Charity Hos
pital, and others wore hoard OF in tho private
practice of a number Of physicians. On tho 10th
thero wore oloVon frosh cases admitted into tho
increasing in private practice, as might vol bo
the case, Us ovor GOO pergonB from infected ships
had beon lot looso over tho city. There were u
deaths i'll the first ton days. Panic prevailed
ovory ,diroctiou.; yet the lending newspapers
hooted at tho ilea that tho disoaBo WAS Asfasio
cholera, and tho Board OF Health atill kept aloof
From tho 18th Of Decembor, 1919, to tho 2otl Of
eholora, OF which 586 occurred In tho Charity
| Hospital.
Tho mnunor in which Lie disease sproad from
! New Orleans forns curious problem, says
soon bad cases on board, aud on son,o OF tho
| steamboats, going up tho mississippi thore was
| twenty or thirty casea aud many doaths. Thus,
| persons having tho diseaso and dying of It, wcre
| the riyor, as high rs Cincinnati. Tho cholera
| also spread among the plantations along tho
| rivor aud also in the interior OF LouiHlana,
| pecially to Thibodeau and Lafourche, where it
| now prevails.
Tho most remarkable mortality occurred in
tho Eighth United States Infantry, body Of
$50 soldiers who CANA down from Jefferson Bar
rackp, nohr St. Louis, in high health, remained
in or ncar New 0rleans for twolyc days, aud
thon embarked for Port Iavacca, In Toxins. In
Zinc days tho ttiHcase broso out and In four days
moro 1l5 mon, or ono-fourth OF tic command,
porishad in aud about Layacca. Tho disease
aoon commenced to prevail in Houston, Texas
At tho Charity Hospital as many On
fifty casoa occurred among tho nurHes,
servants. and poraonb WHO Ind boeu adj
mittel for othor complaints. Many were at
tackled after getting hundreds of miles away
from Now orleans aud thus the diseaBe was
actually spread in very short time ovor vast
aron Of tic Southwestern country. a phyaician
from Texas told Dr.. Booth Of Lafourohe, TINT
eyory caso Of cholera in his village was distinct
y traceablo from tic person who camo thero with
1t to tllroo or -four others who wore subsequently
aitnekel. A similar fact was noticed III Went
Tennossoo. gentleman visited Memphis dur
Ing tho opldemic returned to tho interior and
died Of tho diHoaHo; threo or four OF those who
came IN contact With him were attacked. In Mo-
the and Of Nfoy 19I0 tl,ero hnd hnon onlx iii
innthn irho t}rat nanc wan n Inv omn,oval ~,
oue nf lin hoats nlvinr hotwoou Nav t}rleana
and Mobile.
Tho first case was brought to Natchez on Dec.
frnrn Y;ckah,rc m n astbnaf Inter in liz am.
son the ston,nor Gon. I,owo arrival nj Nav Or-
| 1annn from / .ouisv;lo havinr hn,i forr nr f3vo
cases ~ ehoiera IN hhoard n Par ,1nasino vita.
fmrr. Cnnas occnrrej m othor atenmhnata rorn,
inr '1own tia liyer. osnnciniiv on thn etoamhnnt