The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-08

cases Of crime and INSTRUMENTATION in
the army, and it is hoped that this ter
rible example may have a salutary effect
on the army In general-Vedremo, as
Italians say.
YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC.
a Tark with Governor Blaokburn-Ths
Dtssass hot Contaaious, but 1ptdsmio.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal
A reporter yesterday met K Govern
or Luke P. Blackburn, and knowing
that he had probably been through
more cholera and y%ellow-fever epidem-
les than any other man alive, asked him
what his opinion was as to the probable
ity that cholera would invade this coun-
try.
"No man can tell" said the ex-gov-
ernor sit comes as a thief in the night,
without warning, as it came to Frank
fort, KY, in 1882. At that time there
were some cases in New York, but no
where else in the United States. It
struck Frankfort on November "a; it
was very cold and the ground was fro
zen II had showed that morning. No
one expected the cholera any more than
they expected an earthquake; yet be-
tween u o'clock at night and daylight
twelve persons had died of it. Again,
the disease may come as it did in 1885.
In 1888 cholera had prevailed in every
limestone district in the state of Ken
lucky, but in no granite district in this
state or elsewhere. It had passed off
the continent and all fears had disap-
peared; yet on Saturday, August 5,
1885, it broke out in Versailles and in
H~opkinsville, towns 15O miles apart, at
about the same hour. At each place it
prevailed about the same length of time
fourteen days, with great fatality. 1t
did not extend two miles into the coun-
try from either town"
"Do you consider the disease conta-
gious?" asked the reporter.
mo, Of course not" said the doctor.
"The facts clearly indicate that it is not.
The words contagion and infection are
used anonymously; yet they are as dis
similar as any two diseases. Contagion,
as the word implies, is taking o disease
by contact. Contagious diseases car
be taken time and again by actual con
tact. An infectious disease is taken
through the medium of the atmosphere
within a localized distance, without
actual physical contact. The atmos.
phere that surrounds the patient, or
which is in the room where he
is, becomes pregnant with some ma.
terial substance, either fungi OF
bacteria-with some substances which
must possess either animal or veget-
able life. Among infectious diseases
smallpox, yellow fever, scarlet fever,
measles and whooping cough. Barring
exceptions, an infectious diseases car
only be taken once. One attack gives
an immunity from others. This, in
deed, is the marked characteristic OF
infectious Diseases"
1Do you believe that a strict quaran-
tine will keep cholera out Of the coun-
try?"
II am decidedly . believer in quaSan-
tine against all infectious diseases; but
certainly not against cholera, which is
not Of that class. Cold weather will
destroy yellow fever; as every one
knows, and hot weather will destroy
scarlet fever; but season has no
influence over cholera. It has been
here in winter, summer, spring and
autumn; it was as fatal in Moscow
when the snow was ID feet deep as it
ever was in the tropics. In order that
quarantine may prevail against cholera
it must be an infectious disease; but il
it is an infectious disease, you start u
case Of cholera anywhere in the world
and it is bound to kill every person in
the world before it stops. What is to
stop it? The season has no influence
over it, and one attack only predisposes
q person to o second attack instead OF
/ giving immunity. You may cure q
case, but in the meanwhile somebody
else has taken it. and the spread goes
on. A person who has had it once will
meet and contract it again, and SC on to
the end. You may follow the course OF
cholera from the Ganges to the Equa-
tor, and you will find that it has never
prevailed in o granite country, but al
ways in q calcareous country"
.Has this anything to do with the or
igin Of cholera?" +
Eyes; there are evidently two causes
for cholera-a remote or atmospheric
cause and the immediate cause, which
must be the character of the water used.
When the atmospheric cause prevails,
the earthly salts contained in limestone
water and the organic matter in water
that after standing "a hours becomes
offensive, are the exciting or immediate
cause and develop the disease. I thirk
there is no occasion for special alarm
because of the existence of cholera in
France. It may drop down upon Louis
vile tonight and kill great many peo-
pie, rs it has come suddenly heretofore
to other places; but tomorrow every
man a protect himself and his family
by boiling the water that they drink, or
by using green tea, this being an as
tringent and more palatable than boiled
water. The water of tea should be
thoroughly boiled and it may then be
cooled by putting lake ice in it,"