Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-17

ffty cases of CHAMBERS in the stables of
the Egyptian Transit Company.
The salts of ircn, such as the car
Donate, sulphate and ioduret, have
been found very useful in this disease.
But, whatever treatment is adopted,
either for acute or chronic glanders,
the diseased animals should be sepa-
rated. That treatment is most iniu-
rious to the public which permits this
contagious malady to spread and per-
petuate itself indefinitely. Our ad-
vanced knowledge of its origin and
mode of propagation should enable us
to stamp the disease out of existence.
Life, in a great variety of forms, has
become extinct on this planet The
recent mastodon has left his huge
bones, but the living animal exists no.
where on the earth. Flying sausians,
sixty feet in length, once darkened the
air of this continent. No such alliga-
tors, with wings, now exist in the
world. Whole nations have been ex.
terminated. Apply this natural law of
extemination to all injurious parasites.
The Western Farmer states that over
twenty COWS were recently poisoned to
death by eating broom corn. The broom
corn belonged TO one man and the COWS
to another; and the owner of the cows
believed his stock had been purposely
poisoned. As the blades and stalks of
green broom corn have been fed to COWS
for centuries with no such bad result,
the authorities took the matter in hand,
purchased COW and turned her into
the broom corn field. It is said that
after eating FIVE hills of corn she
dropped dead. This exonerates the
owner Of the corn, but it does not tell
us what killed the COW, nor the other
twenty that died. A stock-raiser in
Illinois lost twenty-five head of valu-
able short-horn cattle few hours after
they were turned into field of corn
stalks, where corn bad been gathered.
In both cases, the poison that killed
the animals was vegetable or animal |
parasite feeding on nutritious plant |
cultivated by man. Chinch bugs on
corn are known to be poisonous. Many
fungals are also poisonous. Our OBJ
ject is to call public attention to i'm
portant facts. We aim at prevention
more than cure. Treating of cholera
as an epidemic in Birmingham, Ala,
last year, DR.. Jordan says: The first
case was an able.bodied laborer; had
been here about six weeks, and had his
bed clothes shipped to him from Hunts
vile a few days before he was
taken sick; cholera was pre-
Yailing In Huntsville at the
time, and this is the only known
means by which he could have taken
the disease; no care was taken to disin-
feet the discharges, which were thrown
on the ground in the rear of the house,
on the slope of the hill Immediately
above the branch, which at every rain
received the washings from the privies,
stables and out-houses on the north
side Of it" Five days afterwards a
second case occurred, and the disease
speedily became epidemic. If this la
boring mans box or bundle of bed
clothes, at best of small value, had
been burnt, he and the town of Bir-
mingham would probably have escaped
the scourge of a severe epidemic.
The point we make is, that a city
had better burn and pay for a trunk of
infected goods; kill and pay for a
glandered horse, than suffer the losses
and all incidental evils that follow such
neglect OF duty. As this laboring man
unconsciously spread pestilence from
one city and county to others, so do
thousands of other laboring and bust
ness men. They carry the germs of
many communicable diseases in their
bodies, as well as In their clothing; and
with our constant and large intercourse
VS. learn by sad experience how cpl
demic and epizootic maladies extend
from State to State, and from CONT
nent to continent Mankind must fra
ternize to resist the advance of these
enemies; for the poisons and
the worms that destroy us, have small
regard to any human laws or ciyiliza-