Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-25
HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE.

Memphis Letter

MeMpnls Letter.
You can form no idea of the distress
Women in childbirth, surrounded by
little ones, quartered in tents, see one
oy one pass from their sight on to the
hospital, thence to the grave. Soon the
babe Is born. yellow as gold; the mother
fingers few days, and then she. the
last of the household, is put under the
ground. we save no women who are
attacked. Yesterday woman and two
pretty daughters, Of twelve and sixteen
years, walked from the train to my tent
and reported for assignment to quar-
ers. From my familiarity with the dis
ease at once remarked: "Why, wo-
man, your two girls have the fever"
The eldest one said; "No, sir; indeed,
! never felt better in my life had a
little chill yesterday, but am well now
Her pulse showed l25, temperature
l04;, eyes CLASSY, skin pufed and the
whole countenance beautiful pink. In
order to quiet and crafty the mother
put up tent near me for the night.
Next morning | had them examined
ana both were sent to the hospital. /
was down there this noon. The mother
was PROSTATE with nervous prostration
and the children lie in the Potter's field.
ms disease is yellow fever or is,
IN fact, the malarial fever of this coast,
intensified by the introduction of the
germs of ship or Asiatic fever. Iii
the most subtle scourge the would has
experienced, and battles all medical
experience. A person Of intelligence.
when iirst attacked with the malarial
symptoms, if he be administered to mt
once with the usual treatment, wrapped
up IN blankets and nursed carefully.
may pull through. None but the rich
can in times like the present command
special attention. The masses are
treated by the wholesale. and all alike.
few recover.
The first symptoms are heaviness and
slight chill, then suppression of the
urine, pulled face, CLASSY eye, beautiful
flushed skin, pink eye-lids, pulse 100,
temperature l03 to JOG. Soon vomito
begins, which is simply slight, hawk.
ing sound and splitting of a coffee
ground substance from the stomach.
which sinks to the bottom of the vessel.
The patient after each emission, feels
we'll and would get up if allowed. No
pain, no evidence of concern, either by
look or action. The pulse begins to
run down TO 90, 50, 70, 80. 40; then
comes the pinched nostril and m echan-
ical breathing. They sit up; want to
get up; are induced to lie down, and
quietly pass away.
Thursday night rs was making the
rounds, l saw II woman returning from
the intirmaIy with vial of medicine.
1t was sprinkling little. She went into
her tent, lit candle and lay down. In
few minutes ! heard an alarm. Wo-
men and children were running wild
about that portion of the camp. hast
ened there, when my eyes beheld n
most heartrending sight. This woman's
babe, nine months old was crying on its
mothers breast, and she was dead.
came near having a stampede. The
child was cared for, the mother taken
away and the tent burned with its con-
tents.
The doctors quarrel among them
selves, each insisting that his own theory
of treatment is the right one. They re-
fuse to organize. The negroes refuse to
bulge while rations are given out, and
threatened to sack the town unless their
demands are acceded to.
CLASS AZ at the Paris exhibition is
devoted to dolls and toys, among them
artificial birds with real feathers that
utter natural songs and wash them
selves with delighted twittcrings. The
fashionable French doll has Il head of
Sevres porcelain, and employs tho
swansdown pufffor powdering her face
and vermill,on lip-salve, just like her
owners mamma; likewise perfumery,
hair dyes, rouge and enamel She is
slight Of figure, but is fitted with flesh
colored India-rubber air jacket, which
can be inflated, giving her the requisite
rotundity. A band of violet studded
with seed-pearls hides the solution of
continuity at the neck. The arms and
limbs are of compressed ca,ton.pdte,
deliberately articulated; when the skin
is coarse false epidermis of India-rub-
Der is slipped upon them. One doll
has not only trousseau of undercloth-
ing in dozens, trimmed with Valen-
ciennes lace, but a $40 dressing table,
with Venetian looking-glass, a hand
mirror framed in silver yepousse, nail
polishers, brushes ana pigment in
carved ivory boxes and cut-glass bottles;
also, with wigs, chignons, frisettes,
braids, rolls of false hair and cushions
Of wool wherein to erect raised Golf
fures. There are also babies, with
chubby heads, in which the bump Of
philoprogenitiveness is of lead and cork,
so that if the darlings are dropped
they will fall on the backs Of their
heads and escape injury. These say
"Papa" and "Maman," and cry.