Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-18
PAINSLURKI IN FINEFARE.
DELICACIES THAT INVITE ''OLD
CHOL." AND THE DOCTOR.

Midsummer Night sounds that Betoken
High Living and the Presence of tho
Family Physician-The Spiteful MIX
Curd Gets In Its work.
At no season of the year does the fami-
ly physician receive more calls to imme-
diately hasten to some patient than now.
The helated citizen on his way home these
midsummer nights frequently hears
sounds somewhat ike those ships crew
make when heaving an anchor. The heay-
ing is unmistakable, but moments list
ening convinces the passer that an anchor
is not the cause. Upstairs in the nearest
house, lights move hurriedly from room
TO room as the anxious wife OF mother
searches for the peppermint, camphor,
and Jamaica ginger bottles. Though
he Is not seen the pedestrian
knows that the uurelenting cholera NOR
bus has invaded the family. Between at
tscks the victim sadly and painfully
enumerates to the doctor the bill
OF fare which the cook innOcently
prepared for supper. Like as not, it was
come fruit that beguiled the appetite.
"Old ch0l.' and his victim struggle round
upon round with scarcely an intermission
for rest. The latter doubles up until he
is IN the shape Of an Egyptian mummy,
and in less than fifteen minutes he wishes
lie was mummy,
Thus far no case Of cholera morbus has
resulted fatally, although there have
been many attacked. Peaches, unripe
melons, apples and almost every kind Of
fruit have scored one or more victims.
That deceptive preparation known a.
milk curd" has made a fair record, and
in the absence OF reliable statistics il is
believed TO be in the lead. Corn pudding
Knocked out a c0lOred family Of five
at one stroke a few days ago.
Several instances could be mentioned
Of attacks directly traceable 70 the insid-
uous curd. Those who have suffered from
il know TO their sorrow that, with few ex-
ceptions, it contains more pains and
cramps to the spoonful than any other
dish that hnds its way TO the table.
Individual cases are frequent. Friends
Of the curd claim that tits abused, and, in
apology, cite cases of persons who have
been made sick by eating il, and who
have eaten II without i'll effects many
times before and since they We're sick.
Medical opinion has been aeked in regard
TO certain recent cases, whether the iuiu-
Observation-Disclosures Of the appetite for curd
caused the sickness which, in more
than one case, was quite alarming. Curds
from good milk were pronounced whole (
some, and the inference was drawn that
the effect Of the curd is dependent upon
the milk or clabber from which il is made. /
A party Of four, two of whom were la
dies, were recently made very sick by
milk punch The cholera morbus was
traced 10 the milk, as each one used dif-
ferent liquor with 1t. 1t is an unsettled
question whether the milk In these cases
was wholesome when first obtained. /
There Is said 70 be a variety OF vegetation
which injurlously affects the COWS that
eat il and their milk.
"Milk-sick land" is phrase that does
not enhance the value OF a faImin some
sections Illinois is said TO contain large |
tracts OF it. Cows that Craze on it be- /
como sick, and persons who use their milk /
are made sick. Generally the land il
Yery rich and the vegetation luxuriant.
Summers sOlace, the frlgid ice cream
has not been at all ambitious this year.
and no cases Of sickness from il have been
reported, it having evidently yielded the
palm to the curd.