Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-12

trembled and exclaimed in voice
terror, % Lord! the blast of. death
bowling in its rage. It appears as
] a whirlwind were lifting me up. Lore
wilt thou not, then, hear nly prayers
: The spectre! O. do behold the spectre
Yes, there it is; its cadaverous counte
nance is agitated by convulsive throes
its red eyes are rolling in their orbits
Begone! begone! Oh! its hand-its ic,
hand has seized on mine. Mercy, Lord
have mercy! "Onwardm Oh. thi
scourge, this terrible avenging scourge
i Must |, then, again carry it into thi
city? Mercy, mercy. "Onward" {
Lord, have pity on me! can no longe
keep my footing on the ground; th'
spectre is dragging me over the brow
OF the hill; my course is as rapid as th'
death-bearing wind that whistles il
my track; 1 already approach the wall:
of the city. The ground is fleeing from
under me; am already at the city
gate; oh, yet, Lord, yet there is time
oh have mercy on this slumbering city
| that it may not even now awaken with
lamentations of terror, of despair and
death! 0 Lord, touch the threshold
of the oate; verify thou willest it so,
| then. 'Tis done-Paris! the scourge, is
in thy bosom! OF, cursed, cursed ever
more am l! Onward! on! on!'" Such
is the picture, drawn by master hand
of the approach of "Cholera."
Pestilential or Asiatic Cholera has
| by some been regarded as only a more
| than ordinarily malignant form of So
called spasmodic cholera, acting as an
epidemic, and not contagious, but
while in the near past volumes have
been wr tten for and against the most
important question of contagion, it
| may at the present moment be consid-
cred settled that the disease under con-
sideration is both contagious and in
fectious in an eminent degree, as much
SO as small pox or scarlet fever, and
further it seems very probable that it
is dependent on special or specific
poison, though what the nature of that
poison is, the writer is of the opinion
is as yet unknown, DR.. Koch to the
contrary Notwithstanding. The first
recorded case of cholera appeared at
at Jessore city in the delta of the
Ganges i'll Bengal in 1917, probably in
the latter part of the year, and from
this place, and this time until 1882, it
had extended over a great part of
Europe and Asia. making history of
desolation and death such as the world
had not before heard Of Arabia is said
to have lost one-third of her population,
China more than that. Of 16, 900 eases
in the provinces of the Caucasus 10000
died. OF 81, 900 cases in the provinces
of Russia in 1880 more than 81 900 died.
In Hungary about 100000 persons
were attacked and more than 200, 900
died. On this continent the first ap-
pearance of this pestilence was at
Quebec, Canada, June Sth, 1882. And
at New York June oath of the same
year. Since this time there have been
three notable epidemics, in America,
viz: in ls4S, in 1854, and in 1864 60,
but it has never yet in this country
reacaed that high rate of mortality
which has been observed in Europe
and Asia. The commencement of an
attack, (the premonitory symptoms) is
generally indicated by paleness, an ex-
preston of anxiety to the countenance,
with pinched appearance of the
features, singing or buzzing in the ears,
and dizziness, pains in the stomach, a
feeling as of a weight pressing the
breast; the patient is more easily ex-
cited than usual by matters of slight
great weakness out of all |
to the other symptoms, a |
general restlessness, pains like collie in
the bowels with slight diarrhma, some |
of the legs, slow pulse and |
frequently with dampness
of the skin; peculiar dark shadowy |
looking ring around the eyes has been |
observed in many cases as first warn |
ing. The above symptoms may de-
velop slowly and be continued over
two or possibly three days, or they |
may be crowded into but few hours or
even minutes, as in the more maIig-
nant forms of the disease the patient I
seems struck, almost without Fremont |
ton, from state of health, into the
fully developed stage of the malady, i'll
" hich all the above signs are intensi-
fed, cramps become general over the
whole body, the eyes sink deep in their
sockets, and are surrounded by a black
ring, giving the pa tient terribly hol-
death-like appearance, vom-
ting and purging, frequently in inn
neDse quantity, of fluid like rice
water containing white looking or
sometimes greenish coiored flakes; the
general appearance is one suggesting
terror and despair; the surface of the
body to the eye and to the touch is like
hat of a shrunken corpse, in many
Eases presenting changes of color in all
shades from leaden or purplish hue
to greenish black. Complaint is made
IF great heat and distress in the stom-
ach, the breathing is performed irreg-
llarly and with great difficulty, the
patient slowly drawing in his breath
with a mighty effort and then sudden
" expelIing the air, which is returned
cold and raw, as If it were forced out f
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