Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-12-08
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Cured, and memOrizing the roll OF
words necessary to be learned to utIl'
ize the maps with linear dellneatlons
! The lesson learned, the officer was
ordered" to visit the points In the
. United States at which cholera nau
occurred and investigate ~ its origin,
cause, nature, etc. These were the
public orders expressing the ostensiDle
design of the visit of the medlcal
officer of the United States, in the
receipt of regular pay, and having
regular duty TO discharge, and Teceiv-
ing extra allowance for duty ~ dis
charged outside OF the regular duty,
at the order of his superior officer, our
from the Treasury Of the United
States To fill this order OF in vestiga-
ton, the maps were carried from point
to point, the medical men were AS
sem bled at the points visited, not to be
asked about the occurrence OF cholera
where they lived. but To show TO them
tue maps with drawn lines from point
To poinr, at which cholera had ex-
sted, aud say over the lesson
he had conned, by which the doctors OF
country towns and little cities would
be taught that cholera was contagious, and
that quarantine is necessary to stay Its
progress, and through that the people
| would be inducted into the same views, and
| Tue representative III COngT6>S % T0Hu6Teu
an effective instrument IL furtherlng the
objects of the potitico- medical men. But
/ the expenses on the part of the Govern
ment in this electiOneering process of its
| officers did not,stop with the termination
| Of the Journeyings. and Instructlng lectnr-
| ers on the map and It's delineations. The
! time of the officer was further employed
in preparing the material which constitu-
| ted huge volume, printed and bound at
| Governmental cost of testimony support
! i've of the views necessary to be enter
tanned for Congress to predicate quaraR-
| tine laws on. And, presumptiveIy, the
very efficient officer, rs a reward |
| 70; his services in obedience TO the order, |
! in secret instru 3tions to promote the form
alton of opinion tending to the passage of
quarantine laws Was given leave of ab- |
sence long enough for him to enter into |
private practice, and yet receive pay from |
the United States Government.
The end is not yet. A few years elapse, |
when the scourge of hot climates and dirty
cities comes. Sickness stalks in its might |
Death waved, and advanced his steps by
the light of day, and wide through the
bosom of night! Citizens, both rich and
poor, meet on a common plain, and to.
gether encounter the burning breath of the
dire faver, shoulder t. shoulder fall into
the embraces of the silence-breeding vic
tori The inhabitants of the whole land
are aghast at the herOism Of the people en-
home-nourished, pestlence, and submitting
to the strokes of c0mmaHd to mortality
obeyed daily by hundreds! From every
point of the compass sent words of
commentator, and of sympathy, and
deeds of charity are perpetrated by totter-
ing age, the strength of maturity and
gushing youth, in self-denias to furnish
supplies to the people in the sick -stricken
area of their own country! La the midst
of this source of trouble, of sympathy, of
{ho aff nF h. g., L.. |
the recipients of pay and of position from
the Government, which is held as sweet
morsel, but exciting desire for more m oney,
and position from which to exert larger
power, and dispense more .favors, is alive,
and emotions of Joy are INDUCED in the |
occurrence of another opportunity to
gather material with which to prosecute
appeals to the national legislature to estab- !
lish procedures of coercive stringency,
inhuman in application, destructive, not
alone of commercial intercourse, but of
the finer emotions of humanity, of social
and of personal sympathetic (
administrations, and absolutely void
of good in any particular. The rare vir-
tue of benevolence in connection with i'm. 1
mense monetary resources resident in q
single persona woman of New York
places sufficient sum of money in posi- L
lion to be expended, with the avOwed OBJ 4
ect of largely beneftting mankind by /
the time and capacity of men .
with an eye single to the calculation of the 4
nature of the great, dread scourge of the
people Of the torrid portions of earth's y
sarf,ce. But alas Her almoner had L
already been engaged in attempt to 4
mould opinions to his own, had already a
argumentations to prove the q
ruth of doctrine which had been can v
7assed, and tested by experimentation in r.
tituted by older governments than this, n
md found to be but sueciOus assumption, n
lad already re-advanced individual in :,
tances of seeming force which had been =
ime and again shown in their nakedness, u
Until, under the skillful comparisons, and d
borough analy teal processes, to which o.
hey had been submitted by La Roche,
hey had been shown to be but sounding
rass and tinkling symbol. Of course he
elected men whose mind, like his own, 4,
1as already poised in opinion, to be the u
rgsniZed commission. Their nest was al G
eady formed and feathered, the egg was TIT
where from they could not ="
from it was Matched the
Onclus:on. that the Southern scourge was ri
xotic, yet by what means, through what
hannel 1t came to this country must for so
yer remain undetermined. Metropolitan 81
| edical Journals, East and North, prefig-
red the conc usion of this commission, In
nd urged their readers to be ready to CO.
perate in soliciting Congress to interpose
le might of the Government in the direc. ~
on of the concluson-foregone certainly
/
nd paragraphs, in the local columns of
Outhern newspapers, were procured ad- In
ission and publication, touching the fears
I'd ignorance of the people, and guiding in
leir minds to q favorable, indeed
IDENTITY favorable, reception of any doc r,
inc laid down by the commission, and the
ioption of any suggestion, by any self TT
instituted organization, based on the con- -;
usions of the commission. VI
The end of the opportunity is approach
Q. The benevolent woman's money has
zen expended in show of wisdom, not
all to the satisfaction of science, of knowl- FRI
ge; and the result is the appointment of
to secure the passage of quar- du
time laws by the United States Govern
ent. Thus far the mountain has labored
ID produced a mouse, but it remains yet no
the parturient thrOes, and, truly, therei is
niger of form more mOnstrous under
g manipuations of the experts in their
actical obstetricy on the member of the
gust Senate, and the solons of the House Lol
Representatives of the United States of
merica. We hope not We will wait mi
ID see! MEDrCIN
CONSUMPTION CURED.
An cid physician, retired fir m pra>tice, hav-
; had placed in h s hands by an lst India
ssionary the formula of simple vegetable of
N 49, l.