The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-09-13
JOB PRINTIN G.
On HOLERA.
PeeuIiarItles of the Dread fal Disease
That IL Now scourging southern
Europe.

That - NOW scourRtnk southern
Europe.
Translated from the German by Chas.
TroppmaD.i
This dreadful and death-slriking
disease halls from the hot climate OF
the Orient. Its temperance in Eu-
rope has been oftener than that of the
pest, and through that medical science
has come nearer TO solve the problems
OF lis origin, contingency and its cure.
IL has been discovered that its con-
tagency is due, and only due, To the
stools nf the afflicted. and that through
social intercourse with the afflicted 1t
may never becaught. Wherever the
stools OF cholera patients undergo fur
ther decomposition, the germs of the
disease will be taken up by the air.
Therefore We infer that All epidemic
mu>tapPear whenever the excrements
from cholera patients, whether IL be
AT their hight or at their beginning,
are nptied into clUseLs which are Wis.,
tied by perfectly healthy persons.
OF course, improper sewerage,
dampness, bad water apd food, fllthy
ways of living la general, assisted by
bad closets, may bring it about, anu
generally amongst the most thIekly
settled parts Of town, where the
poorer classes so generally live in a
nlthy and unhealthy condition. None
are excepted, yonng ar Old, male or
female; bnI II Is certain tfat these
people whose stomach and bowels are
sometimes afflicted by some trouble
or another, are more apt TO he taken
down by cholera than others. Diet =
q great Item III this disease, IL having
been noticed that on Monday--sInce
Sunday gives occasion 10 exce>ses--
always more cases were reported than
on other days. fhe period of its APP
pearance FROM it, incubation may be
from one to three days; although
cases are known when six days had
elapsed since the poisonous germs
had been lnocnlated. One particular
case has been noted in the epidemic
at Vienna IN 1870. A young lady
working rs "A collectori in "A coffee sa-
loon, who on her day of visited her
mother, which happened once week,
her mother living IN part OF the
city where cholera was raging. Five
days after her visit she WAS taken
down. and on the sixth was dead.
See was perfectly well on the evening
OF the fifth day, and had no symptoms
of cholera; bun after closing the store,
the powerful poisons made them
selves felt.
We have three forms of cholera.
Tho lightest form consists of watery
discharge from the bowels; but even
such stools produce the poisonous
germs of cholera. and bring about the
epidemic, and sometimes ia its se-
verest form.
The second and more deadly form,
emesis, rs united with tue walery
stools. In this form the stools al
ready have the appearance peculiar
to cholera, they havinga yellow color,
and no more odor. aud look like rice
water. These rice water stools are a
characteristic sign OF cholera. Through
the co 'tinuous einptying OF the bow
els large amount oi water is taken
away from the system, and terrible
thirst will appear.
In the third form, the most deadly
of all. another symptom ~ alaed 10
these already mentioned, namely, the
cramp-like contraction OF some of he
muscles, generally the muscles OF the
shaft. This third forn Is generally
The result of either the first or second
form, which had continued for some
days, through which 1t seems the
whole contents OF the bowels are emp
tied; but whenever the patient Is re-
aaired To take toa vessel, he il always
surprised that IL is hlled, when he
leaves IL. But most patients do not
know in what danger they are, and
are careless enough not To- ask for
medical assistance, though before they
had always asked for it, when hut
elight cramps troubled them. The