The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-01
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Fronsths louisville Courier Journal.
ASfeporter yesterday met ex. Goymn.
Or Inke p. Blackburn, and knowing
thata he had probably been throuoS
moro cholera and yellow-tever epidem,
lcs q ian any other man alive, asked him
whhe his opinion was as to the probalII.
[ty that cholera would invade this conn.
+ TlfNo man can tell" /" said the es .oor... Z
elnf u comes as thief in the nii .nnt. nh.
vttAoqt warning, as il came to F. !, thara thar
Fort ~, IN 1882. Atthat tin Int oo no
fere Syome cases in New York .,tatas a' ny r.
khers else in the United .fdamher "a 4
truck Vrankfort on Nc;ironnd NcI,, v.s = u y
vas yer; cold and the 9tbst @ mn-n;na was t19. lMs
ZEN. ltsad showed aolera any more ths. Mo
dne expeaed the %n earthonaIa. ',. rss sIsn ha
tpsy e1Refed ls ek at night and dsyiioht
tween - cleens had died Of Il. Iasin
49, ~. may come as it did in 1885.
me tos %3sss cholera had prevailed IN everr.
,n l 5ne district in the state Of Ken
!le.y, llne but in no granite district il. .this
Mate or elsewhere. II had passed olF
the continent and all fears had dissp..
peared; yet on Saturday, August t.
1886, il broke out in Versailles and, n
Hopknsville, towns 15O miles apart. e
about the same hour. At each place Il
prevailed about the same length oftime
fourteen days, with great fatality. Il
did not extend two miles into the coun.
try from either town."
WTln vnu Cnno;dor Tho xI;.aosn ~. 49,
gious p asked the reporter. ss.
;, aNc, of course not" said the doctor.
The facts clearly indicate thatit b not.
The words contagion and infection are
used synonymously; yet they are as dis
similar as any two diseases. Cmtagion,
as the word implies, is taking diseBe
by contact. Contagious diseases can
be taken time and again by actual con-
tact. An infectious disease is taken
through the medium Of the atmosphere
within 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 or
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 can
only be taken once. One attack gives
an immunity from others. This, IN
deed, = the marked characteristic Of
infectious diseases"
"Do yon believe that strict quaran-
tine will keep cholera ont Of the coun-
try?"
tine against al infectious diseases; but
certainly not against cholera, which i
not Of that class. Cold weather will
destroy yellow fever; IS every ons
knows, and hot weather will destroy
scarlet fever; but season his no
influence over cholera. Il has besn
here in winter, summer, spring and
autumn; it was Is fatal IN Moscow
when the snow was IA feet deep q Il
ever was in the tropics. In order that
quarantine may prevail against cholers
it must be an infectious disease; hut II
it is an infectious disease, you start =
case Of cholera anywhere in the world
and it is bound to kill every person in
the world before IL stops. What il to
stop it? The season has no influence.
over it, and one attack only predisposes
q person to second attack instead oe
giving immunity. You may cure o.
case, but in the meanwhile somebody,
else has taken it. and the spread goea
on. A person who has had il once will
meet and contract IL again. and no on "a