San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-29
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Asiatic cholera, or its boon compan.
ion, the plague, will make its travel
westward this year. The yellow fever
left its dread impress upon America
last year. Epidemics Of this kind are
said to appear and reappear in cycles or
periods Of time of considerable uniform.
ity Of duration. Upon this periodicy
is based the prediction that the years
1879 and 1880 will be distinguished
by the unusual violence of diseases OF
that character, due in part, perhaps to
atmospheric conditions favorable for
their propagation. AS any one csn
recall from his own experience the
great difference between day when
the atmosphere is clear, pure, and bra
cling, and another day when it is heavy,
sultry, facilitating, 80 also is it posi-
bic to conceive of seasons which are
notably healthy or unhealthy because
Of continued conditions favoring one
or the other state of physical well be-
ing These meteorological conditions
are said to be due to the condition Of
the planets, which latter are popular
" supposed to regulate the weather,
and the weather regulates the health.
and the health regulates everything
else. An excellent paper upon the
subject is that OF Mr.. A. T. Hay, of
Burlington, who has given more atten-
ton to meteorology than anybody else
in this part of the world, and is fami
liar with the opinions of the leading
scientists upon such topics. Upon re-
quest of the Hawkeye, he furnished
that paper with the following:
1t is said that death loves a shin
ing mark" Be that as it may, plaques
cholera, small pox, yellow fever, and
typhoids, originate in and rage to the
most alarming extent in undrained,
filthy localities. General cleanliness
Implies general good health, while To-
cal filth implies disease Or death to many
Of those who are subject to, or come
within the radius of its pernicious in
iiuences. | assume and hold that sun
stroke is prelude to yellow fever.
cholera, malarial fevers and agues,
and that they have their counter parts
il black plague, small pox, diptheria,
scarlet fever etc, and that they pre-
vail severally according to altitude, lat
itu6e, season, local surroundings and
baromotrical pressures. In other
words planetary or an electro. atmos-
pheric condition that polarizes the
blood and stops circulation and pro-
luces death, known as sunstroke, to
% any considers bic extent. sets in mo-
iou a train of chemics changes in fes-
sTing organic matter that produces
POISON that will create and sustain yell
wv fever. cholera or maiarial epidem
IS according to locality, and these will
followed ~ their counterparts,
iague, smallpox, diphtheria, with
hanga of season. and that these cpl
mics will prevail in favorable locali
sin ratio to the sunstroke that
eceGGd The breaking out az the sever
cpidomics, That il, the planetary
electrical conditions that produce
strokes generate poison peculiar
such electrical conditions, from or
nc matter that causes those terrible
denies to periodically prevail
I'D. rucAout the world. and that they
Il. types of tue same disease, aud
la-l they appear, disappear aud re-
lar 10 some form but virtually
gil. same whenever certain
.a-e:ary positions occur, and that
.. rsce according TO altitude, latitude
IN. temperature and local matter
hes feed upon. Now, according
10 scientific authorities. We are
those planetary conditions that
Stho>e cPidemics that ragged ia
,u;hc-n states as yellow fever. 10
rc,o A. cholera. and raging nov
-, So black plague, and in 9th
li';ss ~ iirhrheria. etc. And
r.sih viii continue under
hi .rnrrr..r lar snrer.l