The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-26


the'Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and q few
Ion the Hemp6eld railroad. The work OF
certain divisions OF the B. & o. r. RslvAl
suspended on account Of cholera. Tht
Narrows, between Wheeling and Mounds
vile, seemed to be choice locality for tht
disease to make It's severe attacks on rail
road laborers. .14 "a.
| As people became more familiar will
cholera, the fear and dread Of Il greatly
subsidized. We have had occasional casei
that would well pass for cholera every
year since that time, but there was NO par
ticular necessity or use for introducing the
irightlul Asiastic cholera, A milder name
has generally been used, as diArrhea Of
cholera morbus. Cholera now seems Il
[be, II It has not always been, one oil the
regular diseases Of the country, and is LA
BILE to appear at any time and place, where
the necessary conditions favor It's devsl'
opment. f .aluGJ ia ,.tE 5iIsa.s.;
Too much importance has been at.
tached TO the long entertained and still
current opinion that Asia and the far dis
tant countries must furnish Us with re-
lmarkable diseases, as they furnish US With
teas, our spices and our choice fabrics. !
presume, however, We can get up -
| formidable disease In this country as can
be produced in any country OF tbs, old
world. Plague, yellow lever, epidemic
dysenlery OF the Southern and Soulhwest-
ern States, typhus and the different forms
OF malarial levers, are all formidable dis
eases when they appear rs malignant and
epidemic. Smallpox, scarlet fever,
measles, who0ping cough and mumps,
have prevailed 70 q much greater extent
in some seas ms than In others, but seldom
In manner that would be regarded as
epidemic. Dysenlery has, ! think, 90
Cured most often in limestone districts,
where the water Is strongly impregnated
with lime; it has most prevailed In these
localitiesin very dry seasons when, IS we
may suppose, the proportional amount o.
the calcareouB Ingredients OF the water
would be increased. The limestone
regions and the lime water are also favor
able 10 the formation Of stone In the blad-
der. .-..- s,igllla ...aIr 1g.. .aI
The first winter after came to this city
the winter OF lS38-S7-there. occurred
an epidemic OF scarlet fever, more malig.
nant and more fatal than any epidemic l
have ever witnessed. Death would often
take place in the forming stage oil the dis
ease. An individual would often be at.
tackled IN the evening with sick stomach
and great prostratiop, become rcomsLose
and die before morning, without conscious.
ness, and without reaction or any external
development OF the disease. In other
cases reaction would take place, aud the
patient liDger for q few days, and die as In
ordinary cases Of malignant scarlet fever.
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| II anything, still more severe. Often
nearly whole families would be down with
| il at the same time. the sick, the dying and
the dead, sometimes occupying the same
room. Insome cases, where families were
large and The houses email, their condition
was truly distressing. l have seen this
state Of things on the tops Of the highest
hills, within three or four miles, OF the
city, where the surroundings were all is-
yorable to health and where aicknefs was
seldom known. a.. 4 ~ Eaa .sino1p
M. - THE "TILER eRIF" ,5.ia7o1
In the summer Of 1913 what was al the
time called the "Tyler Grip" Of the great
epidemic Influenza, bronchitis Or ea.arrh
made its appearance. II, llkethe cholera,
was said 10 have crossed the sea. The
attacks were ushered in by pain in tie
back and limbs, great,muscular lassitude,
chilIiness, running from the eyes and
nose, hoarseness, cough" fever, etc. II
generally passed of in few days, but the
system seemed TO undergo o peculiar and
nASmaneut chan9a: s"a ,ess lAit un"r.
sensitive and more liable to attacks from
diseases. - a'r5i taal
During the fall following this epidemic,
many cases OF typhoid fever appeared,
which required more OF tonic and sup
porting treatment than had previously
been adopted in! feyers.l twas after this
influenza that the old antiphloeistic treat
n1ent OF diseases blood letting, purging.
etc.,-was, In measure, given up. AT
this time change seemed 10 take place In
the character OF the levers and other dis;
eases throughout the country which
change has continued, with E6riofs modi-
fications, TO the present time. It was at
this time, too, that | began to give up the
old method Of treating levers, and adopted
by degrees milder and more supporting
treatment. This course Of treatment has
been often carried much too far in the
other extreme. Many patients. am sat-
isfed, have been lost BY infiammatory
diseases, who, II they had beea bled large,
" at the outset and treated more rs we
treated inf1smmations forty or fftY years
ago, by celomel, opium and tartar emetic.
would have been saved. Any OF us who
have been familiar with both courses OF
treatment, and who will take the trouble
to watch, will notice cases of this kind.
Such men as Gross, Parker and Alice
strongly Criticise this great fear Of blood
letting, ETC., which enters largely into the
fashionable practice OF the present day.
Females lose blood largely by flooding,
and persons lose blood hy wounds and in
juries, with Just as much impunity now as
in times gone by, and often with great
benefit. Modern teaching Is largely on the
extreme and In the line OF tonics and
stimulants, and am satisfied more pa.
tients are lost than would be II more OF the
nd antiphloRistlc treatment we're adopted,
Since that time, too, the general type OF
levers has been more mixed or typhoidal
In character. Pure intiammations aud In
hammatoTy fevers, that occurred when
the blood was more free from poison aud
malarial influences, have largely disap-
peared, together with the old autiphlogis-
tic treatment, which, In their day, was 30
popular and efficient.
There was in lS47, 1913 and 1910, in
many places over the country and in some
sections about Wheeling, and In the city,
large amount Of sickness that went by
the name OF black tongue, black tongue
fever, erydpelas fever, etc. The inhabi
tantsoi the ridges above the Stone Church,
near the Cfuger place, suffered, perhaps,
more severely than those Of any other
locality. There were many severe cases
OF eryEipelas, Inflammation OF the bowels,
typhoid pneumonia and some cases where
the disease located itself upon the brain
and spinal cord, and which might have
been called spotted fever, II that name
had beed fashionable at the time. During
this period too, puerperal fever Of malig'
nant character prevailed extensively. The
disease was severe, often uncomfortable,
and many cases died. The slightest varia
ton from strictly prudent course wal
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