New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-28
THE CHOLERA IN FRANCE.
VARIOUS VIEWS or EMINENT MEN CON
CERNING IT.

them about ten days ago. He was thinking OF
making a tour in their company, perhaps IN swift
zcrland the Syrian Mountains, Sweden, Norway
and ta&ir. The Isle of Rugen on the way. when
he ventilated this idea 10 his wife she replied
"You won't do anything Of the kind. Nouli InSt
90 home and give what help YOU can To blame
Like q saCacious husband, he yielded
60 his better half and 50 the Whoi'
family start Tor New-lork to-day Mrs. BatcheIor
Is IN ardent Republican and an enthusiastic Amer-
can. The moro abe sees Of other lands the more Sh'
saws she loves her own country, especially ltS ih''
tutions.
talked with Judge Bachelor about the cholera
las, wear ne informed me, 10000 Egyptians were
carried bylt lie and ms wife were prudent III
NOT tcnuiiu, the epidemic to attack them, bnt dlu
moi share in the panic which took hold OF the En-
ropcan colony. They remained nj Cairo wAon the
pes,,lance WAS raging there, were careful ohIy W
drunk wafer TINT had been boiled to sprinkle the,'
clothes AID pocket-handkerchiefs with cMbouc
acd and 90 put chloride Of lime on plates about the
interior OF the house. In going to the Tribunal
the Judge had 20 cross u square through winch
cornscs yyer, being borne from the side streets on
tie way to tie cemetery. lie followed WIN nee"
aud Yatchlnl interest the experiments Of Koch
Strauss PrDu Z Bronardel and poor lhuil1cr on
bodies of persons who were carried OF by the cpl
demic and on The microbes they found in then IN
testines. The Judge did not believe this comma
or ,cgle microbe was the cause OF cholera bu'
rather con sequence. 1t did not. when introduced
bv incubation cause the disease. There were
animals which it positively fattened. There are
physicians who hold that cholera is fungus when
Invades the stomach and the intestnes' and tha'
the microbes are a secondary result. At any rate
If had an elective affinity for the illfod, the panic
stricken and persons of low vitality
Koch the other day confirmed this view or Judge
Batcnelor The famous German doctor has come
round to the Pasteurian view of a microoe
beiug the first cause But he says
that il has preference for human beings the coat
iugs Of whose stomach> and intestines are out Of
order. In this respect it is Ike the consumptiye
nlicrobr. which only attacks those whose mucoas
membranes ia throat and bronchial tubes arc I'M
healthy.
In Ecypt cholera burst forth shortly after the
fair Of Damletta. TO MarseIlies II has been I'M
ported by iinerant dealers who came from Ton.on
70 the eIcht days' ft;e which is also fair. 1t is
always wpr-e on Tuesdays IN cities where the peo-
PIE 20 ont holiday making Oh Sundays. The sun
day crowd is a Medium foT 1t propagation Ii burst
ont H. Paris ~ 50 on a Slrove Tue sday, winch
wound zap u'adly-gay carnival; and the falr OF
NoyeoTod IN lN3l disseminated II through Russia
l. Dr.. gcad on slowly here in 1868 until two days
coincidence winch moved the Empress Eugene TO
VISIT tire cholera hospitals. NJ. CASTOR Carrie. now
the editor of a Semi-oiicial journal, was a house
student in the AmieHS Hospital when she went
tbgouejr the cholera wards there and heard her de
plore the resolution of .he Imperial Government
not 10 drav the celebration of her husbands ttte
NJ earle sand that il was really touching 10 hear
and see the Empress among the victims of cholera.
She was told that = dying man was anxious about
his little children and went 10 ms bedside and tod
hun to be of good cheer for She would provide for
them IL IS 20 her honor that she kept her promise
1t is to De regretted thst Ministers did not keep
away those sroliinG dea ers aud caterers to popular
amusement who locked here to make some money
on July II and the six following days. The Coy
eru,nout h4yc-Jnd uufairly-throWn fine weight OF
responsibility on the Municipal COuncll, which u I
decides an favor OF civic tc>uyty, VIII be abuse
should cholera break ont and which, II 1t does not
keep holy la ~alnte BastIilo, VIII be c3TPed az
should tho endemic not invade the CITY. rams IS
iirst-yatc soil for tne propagation OF cholera i
the poor quarters there Il almost wafer lalhlnt'
aud what ta- reservoirs supply Is '"keh RON 'uv
Seine. The DhUys and the NanneS waters are kept
aOr the wealthy quarter, ana thoy even arc
mixed with what comes IRON the nFei'
Nj Aiuhand the city engineer. who Is
also tie chd gardener and autocTat .ol
7he resprvcirs holds fhat Seine D.. good as sprhg
water when Uttered and drawn iiom the rNor at
Iyry before y enters the city. society mas taken
Itself OIL to the country and sea@lde' me ho'P'ai
~ 10 he icdr"ti. lH hnflltl 10 lu'
strain cGolera ylst1uon m!Est pu' ufoA IL.
NJ. Pau Bert on who's" Stl"ntIhc competency 10
trcatan! phF -i'oncaI spNect hrtH no' uT' el-
tirrlv adopts the Burg theory OF cholera ana Inpd,
of preycutn" ~ with a soiuiloH oi sans 81 copper
taken i'm small doses. copper used 10 be under a
cloud. II wa, thought ycr' active person. !uIa
and Gaiirpe llycrchahiltatcl IT, In large dose
NcIdigiIN would poison n O." stomach conn Itt".
il. Burg and Paul Der teach that II
orran r,vr- il out IA the bile and
10 renders thc stomach and mtrstin"s uninhabi l.
able 10 the m,groba. winch ~ pOisons. Doctor
Bug u now IocEuncd a hHhl 81 scicucc-a NAV
VINO strensthouS the IntWtons u genius by clos'
observation, urd VINO H1yr'i' every theory H'
b.uachc 90 y.orous scientific ie 4. lhl9rluh'' t
w his iungub.hill struggle has broken down hl'
health a.d len hhn too "caA t0, the sustained cl
Tort winch ihe setting iorih OF M method IA Il
patients twice q weak. His partner, Or. Nlgncron
The husband OF FeZz0hnl, The SINGER look
after .f,m Their Office IA III picture
celuc Euz4bctian house III a quiet OLD
street t. the IauboHrg 81 German. buI@ l"lU ne
that De accidentally learned the therapeutic
value o. metals JUDGED, II was iIoh an OId peasant
woman m the AycIgnou. There when boy, he wa,
on "A tour III the mountains with htS i1ther, WHO
was seized with a face che, aud W"ni lhtn COT
bed. The housewife ran for the nd of copper
tauccpan and made Inn hold II to his check. II
dong 40 go al she replaced II With hatnon' "hlGi
il "a shC!t tm" gave TeHel., IRON - AoI,l metal
she said. Burg, senior, thought that he Wo4lt
have got well without the Old w"u1ns remedy
Bat his son pOndeTed Tor years Over ti'
incident and trlel TO ascertain, when h'
became a doctor, what cHatye quatie
lay in metals lie tried solution oil salts OF cor
Der on himself N smallpox plague. and IN ; i
on a whole rd in La Charyto Hospital. of which
as a resident pupil, ne had The direction ! p
medi caucut was given 30 prevent &itacAs. Nnu
III the other wards men ana women were DeiH'
swept OF ~ the epidemic. Burg's lot enjoyed i'm
munty. lie also placed armItuTes OF cooper on hl'
patients stOnaChS and nannel dSed WIN SolutlOi
Of yerdigns. In the Ffanche COmtG in 1850 ne ais'
closely studied cholera and found that men engage
in manufacturing the brass works OF clocks an'
f..f.. ~ q
RACED around them. He then applied his metallic
therapeutic treatment to nervous diseases and
fbc secondary naladies proceeding from them. /
he had pois,acd the Seine lie cOu!d not have beel
Tor doing 80 more vmuently attac hed by the inedl
cal pres, and Academy OF Medicine. lhey treated
has cure - ! mania.
1hnrcnt ,ratchnd Rurrs isolated eXperments ne