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Hints Worth Needing, Whether the Pes
thence Comes or Not.

lChicago News.l
"Can Cholera Be Avertedl' is the sub
ject of the leading article in The North
American Review for August. Drs
Hamilton, Rauch, Peters, Wood, and
Leale discuss the question from the
various standpOints of the government
administrative Official, the state sanitarT
executive, the epidemiOlOgist, the medi
cal teacher, and the local health officer
respectively.
While Dr. Peters says that no amount
of impure air, impure water, or impru
dence in diet will cause cholera, he adj
mits that the smokes, smells, gases or
efflluVia, coming from dirty streets,
cutters, sewers, docks, gas-wOrks,
filthy stables, yards, slaughter houses,
or otfal-rendering works, will render all
cases more severe, or even fatal and
hopeless: that contaminated and pol
luted water is quite as dangerous and
injurious in a cholera season as unrIpe
or unwholesome fruits and vegetables
and spoiled meats and fish; and that
any and every imprudence and mistake
in diet will greatly aggravate a case Of
Asiatic cholera.
To this Dr. Wood adds that it should
be remembered that cholera especially
attacks the lowest classes of the popula-
ton, and RACES most yirulently in the
slums. Indeed, he says, if our cities
were kept perfectly clean in all their
parts, and their water supply pure,
cholera would be disease scarcely to
be feared; but the Dives of one block
perishes because he has neglected the
Lazarus OF the next. Thus, unless
stringent measures be taken, the So
called Italian quarter of New DIRK Will
be raging center of the pestilence.
And in Chicago there are similar quar-
ters to be found in almost every ward
of the city.
DR.. LeaIe, speaking of his personal
experience in 1866, notes that even
where it did occur in sanitary houses, if
proper care was taken, it manifested
very slight power to extend, and those
stricken down recovered when properly
nursed; while the inhabitants of badly
drained and crowded places ran greater
risks. Cholera in healthful homes does
not show tendency to spread. During
the epidemic of 1866 the writer, when
called early, did not see asingle instance
of more than one serious case in SAM
tary home, and all that had the pre-
monitory symptoms properly treated re-
covered, except a very small proportion
whose attack was ushered in with fatal
violence
How shall we, who are well and
strong, care for ourselves if we have to
remain in the midst of an epidemic2 Do
not be frightened, but observe the fol-
lowing rules:
1. Cleanliness in all things-the
streets. the home, the person. Keep
the cellars, tanks, and sewer connections
in good condition. For the person a
daily bath, also a wash of the face,
hands, teeth, and mouth after each
meal.
,. Proper clothing, easily fitting and
comfortable. 1t is better to have too
much than too little. a broad flannel
band around the abdomen, worn day
and night, will be useful.
,. Temperance in all things, with a
generous diet of all wholesome articles
fish, meats, vegetables, and clean,
ripe, seasonable, native fruits, with ex-
tras to proper degree. If any article
is known to disagree with you, avoid it.
Do not eat or drink discriminatory be-
tween meals, and if any distress is
caused by improper substances in the
stomach. quickly reject them.
EVERYTHING which maintains the
health of an individual lessons his dan
ger; but it is especially necessary to
keen in complete order the gateway
primarily assaulted by cholera e.,
the alimentary canal. A perpetual
equanimity, an avoidance of fruit ana
indigestible foods, excessive caution IN
the use of purgative medlnes, the taxing
of immediate measures of relief the mo-
ment the slightest diarrhea or gastro-ln-
testinal irritation appears-these are
essentials for every one.