Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-07-12
CHOLERA.

Il Chdiern, says mn exchange, Is the
chihi nf the NEST aIlialid want,
poverty and filth. is cradlegI In
the land of ihe uange4, under burn
ing eqlndurini suns. amid seethin0.
swarnuing population, who, nce0rd-
Ing 10 their religious belief, 20 to
/ celebrate certain rites at place
scsllcd ilurdwar, many miios up the
glng'S. These native gatherings
take place in the spring months OF
April and May, and are attended
by millions Of pilgrims. They
spend days, nights, weeks IN the
mast lIccntious and itl0latrous per-
iornnances, and the pilgrims return
ing, cniteblei in bUly and worn by
dissipation, spread tho infection 20
Cabul, Persia, Central Asia and Rus
sia.
Europeans knew nothing Of tho
cholera until 1917. Then II attack
el JesSSono, n town about 100 iniles
north OF Calcutta. Tho deaths were
twenty or thirty day, and in a
few weeks 5000 pcrished. In Sep
tcmbCr IL reached Calcutta, and,
spreading nUrthwarl, depOpulated
many cities. In Bengal the entire
mortality WAS estimated at about
200,O00, The Europeans madccvery
effort 10 Fight of tho epidcnic.
Huge cauldrpns of water were kept
pcrPetually siunmering, so that
a warm bath could be- takeit "a soon.
as the patient was seized. Some
restricted their diet, Others drank
deep draughts Of brandy. a4m
In May, 1865, 20, eco pilgrims fell
victims ut Jetitlah and Mecca.
From May 10Th 10 June 10th $4,000
pilgrims arrived AT Suez Ia ten
steamers, and it was officially de-
clared that their health wits perfect,
bat it afterward came out that the
Sidney, an English steamer, lost
more than 100 out Of 900 passen-
gers, Tho latter part Of May i5,OO0
pilgrims were encamped near Alex
andrist. They communicated the
disease to1he Arabs, though IL wits
not until" June nth that the health
lists from Alexandria contained the
fact that cholera was present ihCre.
In two months 1000 dicil In Alex
and up 10 July I'D Gd,000
died in Egypt. A panic ol'sued at
Alexandria aud $4,000 peraonS ilcd
to Beyrout, Cyprus, IsOngona, Goil
Trieste and MarStillen,
June l7th, 1860, the cholera tanIc 20 p
Octnber 10Th il WITS at
New York, having been brought
from lIaVre. Tho cholera OaitlGni-
ic OF 1866 opened with the arrival
in Halifax of the steamship Eng
lIna. Fifty fatal cholera cases had
on board before her arri-
val. She bad on board l,7S5 Ger
man and Irish cmigrants, aud on
thc carnival at Halifax IG0 eases aud
furty-siX deaths. Subsequent arTi-
walls IN New York for the year SHOW
that ont OfiS,iDl passengers aud
crew there was n total OF So deaths.
The deaths in Cincinnati Increased
from an aggregate Of 6l0 In twelve
Elys tn a daily average of nearly
eighty, and this In spite of tho most
vigorous sanitary regulations. la
st. Louis, where the Drainage W0s
the record ~ Il single day
@a1 Ill eases and ilIiy two deaths.
The symptoms aro we'll known.
First comes II painless, almost IN
lO0senesSs Ol the bowels; "
iccling of wcarineSS and indispO8i.
ion, which lasts from ono to fur
lays. Greater fatigue fOllOMa-
hen the disease Is reproducing IL
cif, and medical care IL alRulute.
The discharges are the well knnWh
ice water discharges Of cholera.
ticky, ghItinOuS matter, with.a
weetish, sickcning smell. NauSct
.vit Ia
,aticht cail no fongeF lravc his bed;
lie shrfaco Of the body o. tt'oIdshb
he touch; tho skin on the Gaec alhl
lngcr5 .shrinks like that un a wash
rwoman, and can be gathered up
n the fingers; wafer is dcmtndGd,
'ut vomited OFT the eyes are glasay,
he voice husk v aud low the puhso
Iearly disappears, while a prOfuso
batheS the body; the
tomach feels cold. Children look
and aged, and breathe
With difficulty. The symptoms are
lorc Intense; collapse and death
Hsun,
The remedies are innumcrible,
cold water, brandy, am
loHia, musk, ctrlnnic acid gils,
injections, ca,lOnlel, CSstn-
al oils, burnt cork. opium, mus
Ird, and cataplasnisarp Il few only.
he physicians ~ Meiaro sty that
{ ] 900 persons treated with ear
0nie ,acid gas, only sixty died.
Iany physicians stop the drain of
'ater from The blood, forgetting
nat the fluid is 30 foul IL could do
le blood no good. Astringels aml
'dativcs have been found Ia hava
nc worst possible, effect. The loss
T life under II WAS 40 great TINT in
S54 DIR. George Johnson, Of The
.ing's College, resOrte,l Co old pur-
atiyes and used castor oil. so
lany,of his patients recovered tIiut
. published an account Of IiiS sue
ass in the Medical Times. Ills
lcory was, i'm regard to the collapse,
lat the patient was 80 utterly ox-
nusted he eould not expel The poi
m. When the disease some years
20 ragged with virulcnce nj Mar
lilies, near which city are II mum
'r 0f flower gardens, II was Noted
mt none employed among tho
JweTs were attacked.