The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-25

face OF the nurse arc washed AZ snort
intervals with a solution of corrosive sub
Innate, one TO one thousand. All dishes
and cooking utensils are heated over
q spirit lamp or baked IN q stove. Inc
drinking wntcr IL boiled and bread fresh
ly toasted They never are permitted TO
so on duty with an empty stomach. 1t
is said that where these precautions have
been observed no case OF cholera III
nurse has occurred. | saw young sur
gcon today who had just returned from
Hamburg. He said that while he was
in n cholera hospital he did not dare TO
nut out bis tongue to molsten ms ilps,
Now what arc we 10 90 II choierh
threatens TO come TO our own city
Richmond?
rus FATALITY OF FEAR.
Il is said that in every epidemic,
disease Kills n certain number and fear
. much larger number. Therefore, as
far MS possible, avoid anxiety, appre-
honsion or panics. and live in the way
vonr good sense and experience tells
YOU is the most conducive to good health.
SAFEGUARDS AGAINST DrsEAsE.
Keep everything clean. Years ago Miss
Nightingale said: "Scayenge, scayenge,
scavengc." That is the keynote. Traps.
drains beds. clothes, statles, houses,
everything clean, and see that your
neighhor does the same. As water is
the chief agent by which the infection
is carried. see that it is pure. and If in
doubt. boil il. keep it covered, and use
il up in twrnty-four hours. Boiled rain
water is probably the best. u
oughly cooked. Too long fasts and too
frequent feeding are both bad Indi-
cestihle food of all kinds should be
avoided.
Alcohol is bad: whisky drinkers are the
first to Succumb Moderate drinking to
those who habitually use it. Sleep for
eight or ten hours If possible. Exercise
moderately: lead a tranquil and quiet
life. and he guilty of no excuses. In
cholera the soul that sinneth, 1t shall
die
PERSONAL "REMINISCENCES.
How strangely things repeat them
selves. One night in the summer Of $500,
after visiting a number Of cases OF choi-
era, / came back to my Office, then on
Seventh street, and found DR.. Houston
waiting TO see me. | was in state Of
great depression from the poor success /
had in the treatment Of my cases Of chol-
era He advised me to try diluted sui
phuric acid ] did it the next day, and
with better results than | had ever before
obtained Now diluted suphurlc acid Is
the remedy par excellence over here. The
cholera insects don 1 like sour things, anu
if the acid is great they die III 1t. Inc
microbes delight In alkalcs, and so peO-
pie who habtually take some alkaline
0pcrcnt should let it alone in cholera
times During this same epidemic III
1856 | assisted the late DR. Beverly IL.
Wexford in making iutraYenOus injections
Of salt and water. They are using this
method now. and with the same results
marked improvement at first and then
fatal collapse.
GREAT OBTAINS EzPFRrE%CE.
We could learn many lessons in sani-
tary laws from Great britain The free
dom she now Ia ) from cholera Is won
dOrful triumph of sanitation. In lS49,
England lost $1,000 IersonS in the chol-
era epidemic. il. 1866 she lost l4,OUW. III
epidemic being fully as yirulent. In this
epidemic Sha has SO far escaped and viii
probably do So. Notwithstanding her con
slant and quick communication with the
continent. Sanitation in her large cities
is almost complete, and she Is OW look
ing to the Improvement of her rural dis
tricts. She locks ahead and prepares
for trouble. Yesterday in visit 10 Cam
bridge / pissed Just outside Of London
a field in which several hundred worklnen
were erecting 0ne-St0ry wooden build
| lHES. j lis " a. Il iIRiflfl h''Ri'ti't -'' =
| have not now one case in the Kingdom,
but they know that il the epidemic APP
| pears, il comes like an explosion and they
| will be ready.
The quarantine in New York is a
| lcalv one and the RuSsi9n Jews a push
| ing race. The quarantine in New York
! is not only imperfect. but If ono may
! Judge from the treatment of the pas
| sengers on the NOrnannia. il is a cruel
/ 1frSb of shame
would unce the cheek of Russia, if she
showed such want Of humanity and
civilization.
What are Won doing in Richmond to
prepare for the mWclcome guest, who
never has failed t. pay US visit when
he came to America: lie never for
/ gets us. are YOU saying: w hat l
| healthy and beautiful city we have. How
wen it is washed by every rain. It's
material drainage is perfect. What pure
| air we get from the sea up the James
| HON naughty in those doctors 10 say
our water was bad. our mortality re-
! port week after week and year after
! year frghffulv high. Aad how kind
/ in those chemists and other gentlemen
10 tel us the water was pure, and those
cracking doctors were asses. lld they
NOS prove that the canal water we
drink wns pure by showing that the
! NJ ftkti a. " Nftt " 'lt4 was l.iW NVNiA t4is
argument he more cOucusivcT'
OH. YOU gentlemen who look ut an
atom OF water through a microscope.
Icar-sighted people you ere; or try the
rejection of tcaspoonful in p tcst-tube,
and ind il chemically good, though you
know it is physioogicaily bad LOOT,
little further and sec the river, canal
aud the sixty square miles of polluted
drainage that goes into our water.
THE BIG THHEE.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr.. VIII Lecture and
Nvarde and Jarlr4 Wi' Play.
Rev Thomas Dixon, Jr., the great New
York orator, preacher and lecturer, will
talk about "Bachbonc' at the hall Of che
Young Mems Christian Association Mon
day night.
lie viii arrive in Richmond on the
noon train Monday, and will he accom-
panied 10y Mrs. Dixon.
They viii have quarters, while in the
city. at Nord's Hotel
The career Of Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr.,
reads like a fairy tale. he was born
and reared amid the mountains of North