Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-28

abound in germs, and one grain produces
100000 others in twenty-four hours. !
Mineral acids kill the germs, and act as |
antiser tics and disinfectants. but lauda- |
num-, nux vomica, calomel, quinine, chalk,
bi',muth, nor any alkaline remedy, affects
them. A teaspoonful of laudanum was
found not to affect the germs swarming in
two teaspoonfllls of rice-water discharge.
Singular as it may seem, when cholera en-
tiers town, old residents succumb long
before the persons who bring in the plague.
A party of sailors came from Hayre via
Dover to Liverpool, and arrived with we'll
developed cholera The physicians went
back over the route and disinfected every
spot where they had been, and thus checked
| the disease. The doctor declares that ne
amount Of impure air loW Cause choiera unless
The germs here already been sicaIieued int0 he
stomach But bad air, great smokes,
gases, stenches from yards, streets, sewers
and slaug@lter-houses render all cases more
severe, or even fatal and hopeless. Con-
taminated water render cases of cholera
hopeless. The United States and other
navies have long protected their crews, not
only from cholera, but dysentery, tropical
diarrhea, and almost all bowel complaints,
by the exclusive use OF distilled water No
amount of imprudence in diet alone will
cause Asiatic cholera unless some of the
articles have been handled by those already
suffering from the disease, and then a piece
of bread will be as dangerous as
an apple. But any imprudencc in
diet will aggravate cholera cases.
One pound of corrosive sublimate in 500
pounds of water is the best germicide and
disinfectant, 1t may in this proportion be
even drank by the wineglassful, and will
| kills all germs in the system, but should
be used under the control of physicians.
1t will disinfect all clothing placed in it,
and all discharges in which poured. Weak
sulphuric-acid lemonade is practical pre-
ventive and curative remedy. One attack
of cholera does not insure immunity, and
hence incubation cannot well prevent it.
DR.. Wood says that for those who have no
other duty but to protect themselves, while
presence Of mind is good, absence of body
is better il a cholera epidemic. He adj
vises flight to remote places and to mount
ain localities. If cities are kept per-
| Getty clean and tie ~ater supply pure, the dis
ease need scarcely be feared, but A per-
ishes because B, in the next block, neglects
sanitary precautions. Only water that
has been boiled should be drank in the
time of an epidemic. adding brandy to
,cdter is Of no use at all, and is more likely
to be harmful than helpful as preventive.
The doctor dwells at length on the treat
ment of the clothing of patients, which
seems to be more virulent in spreading the
disease than the patients themselves. He
decides that only two disinfectants should
be used to destroy cholera germs-chlori-
mated lime and corrosive sublimate.
DR.. Leale believes the cholera will reach
America. He places no reliance in Fer
rams incubation system. He urges that
the water-supply sources be guarded from
contamination. Municipal inspection and
cleanliness and the most rigid enforcement
of Board of Health rules are necessary.
The doctor holds that absolute quarantine
prevents the entrance of the pest, thor
ough disinfection exterminates it, and
proper treatment carries very large pro-
portion of even the seyerest cases to re-
covery.