The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-27
Written for The ArkdHsdr TrdWier.
 CHOLERA.
By Jennie Porter Arnold.
TO BE CONTINUED. l

Cholera is as old as the human race ill India says Ziemseen ill his "Cyclo- pedia of the Practice of Medicine. " And the mouth of the Ganges and Brahmaputra are today, as they have been from time immemoral, the cen ters of departure of the great Indian epi- denies of disease"
 There are no thorough and reliable reports of cholera epidemics up to l76S. From that date to Ill the disease ragged in the neighborhood of Pondicherry and destroyed 60,000 lives.
 The first world-famous pcstilence dates from Jessora in lSl7 On August l9, of that year Dr Robt, Tytler of Jes- sora, il city forty hours northeast of Calcutta, was called by an Indian phy- sician to patient who had been seized with violent illness in the night
 The symptoms were those of poison ing, and Dr. Tytler was about to make up his report to that effect when he learned that there had been seventeen other fatal cases at the same place, The epidemic spread rapidly and lo,- GOO died in the vicinity of Jessora in the next two months. This was the first commencement of that fearful epidemic, which has spread such sorrow and deso- lation over nearly every land on the face of the earth During this year, lSl7 the disease prevailed throughout the whole of English India and the number of victims in all parts of the country is said to have been 100000.
 In lSlS it spread over all Bengal, In Bcnares, alone, l5,000 died in two months. In this year out of lS,00o men composing General Hastings army, sta toned between Bombay and Calcutta 9,000 died in short time.
 In 1879 it passed the sea and Ceylon and Sumatra were attacked with heavy loss
 
 Persia, where at Bassora one fourth part of the population died. Java lost 100000 inhabitants by it this year, and Batavia l7,000 In 1923 Burmah and Asiatic Russia were attacked For three years following it made little progress but in 1927 it reappearcd with increased intensity in CaleGtta, It slowly advanced again towards Europe and in 1880 pene- trated Russia, where at Moscow it ragged with great violence from October to April 1881. In the latter year it reached Egypt, and at Cairo it was especially destructive 30,000 died in the first few months.
 It spread through Poland and Prussia, and August 30, 1881 reached Berlin, thence it passed through north Ger many, and from Hamburg overleaped the sea and appeared at Sunderland England, October 26, 1891 It soon spread over the island of Great Britan, London was attacked in January, 1882, Edinburg in February and Dublin in March. From England it was carried over to France, appearing in Calais and Paris in March In the latter city it ragged with great intensity destroying nearly one fortieth of the inhabitants.
 In June lS32 it crossed the Atlantic and ragged with especial violence in Que bee and Montreal From thence it passed to the United States. New York was attacked in July and shortly after wards it appeared in Philadelphia and Baltimore in succession. There were a few sporadic cases in New England, out side of Boston where it ragged with great violence
 It ran through the country as far as New Orleans which it reached in No vember, but nowhere in the United States was the destruction as great as in Europe or Asia.
 In 1883 it invaded Mexico, here it was most severe in Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico.
 During this time it had almost ceased in Europe, but it broke out again in June 1883 on the coast of Portugal where Lisbon was visited with especial severity. During the winter of '33 and the year '34 it ragged with great violence in Madrid, Seville and Barcelonia. From thence it spread eastwardly along the coasts of Italy and France and in 1885 passed over into north Africa. In 36 and S7 the disease prevailed again in Italy, south Bavaria, Prussia and east Germany were also attacked With 1857 ended this worldwide epidemic which had devastated the earth for twenty years.
 In ls44 it again appeared in India and