Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-22
lis "A Dreadful ScOurge.

lis "A Dreadful ScOurge.
I'm Death sought for d weapon to
Ia the world Cholera was found.
FOR cannot find words to tell all the
4 what that pestilence, that plague
bne to the earth. Swift, loa thsome,
#ng in its fatality, it has moved ma
*hnd continents to grief more power
"A han anything else since the epidemicS
: black death in the middle ages Born
BadIe of Asiatic filth, where millions
n one another for life, it has grown
Europe and America have shrunk
it. and only when satisfied has it with
a o it's den. Then, after u rest, it has
he'd again to spread renewed terror
Y gh the world. Often has this been re-
&d. 1t is beginning now in the same
4 Whether the end will be as terrible
BIZ b. told. II it is America is to suffer
K the rest of the world. America has
L vet escaped when the scourge crossed
caucasus into Europe.
lie Asiatic cholera originated in Hin
H., and that country has mover been
#utcy free from it. Greece suffered
&epidemics introduced from India 400
! before Christ, and noted Greek physi-
. Aretrus, Ga!cn, Celius, Aurelianus,
Drabasiu of the first three centuries
IL Christian era, described every symp-
ii the disease infinitely.
4 J. c. Peters. writing in the "American
xclopTdia,n takes the ground that the
&mcs are periodical, returning every
He years at the occasion of the great
brnaut festival. The outbreak In
Hon in 166912 was not Asiatic cholera,
4 midcr form that often visits indiyid-
bases without injecting others.
Hen the French and English struggled
h. Coromandel coast of India repeated
&mics we're noticed near Madras and
1rherry in connection with the great
"A oo pilgrimagcs The year 1856 marks
Recognition of periodical returning
ke-yearly cpidcmiCs, connected with
frcat twelve-y yearly Hindoo festivals
Dc great temples. The occurrences
N in 1856, 1868 and 1871.
The Scourrc of 1871.
s. fth -, 1881, 5000 English troops, under
81 PealSe, marching near CANAAN, not
n rom the great temple of Juggernaut,
Every shortly after the huge twelve
n festival had taken place, were at
8d with the disease very suddenly and
IS Uncomfortable fury, after camping on
&,iigrlm grounds and drinking polluted
"a Men previously healthy dropped
by dozens and those less severely
ed were generally past recovery in
y-four hours. BESIDES those who had
N here were 500 on the sick list the first
AZ and IN Two days moro nearly 5000
+ affected This epidemic was carried
burning pilgrims up to Calcutta and
M to Madras.
ee times twelve, or thirty-siX years
qucntly the great historical epidemic
occurred. This proceeded up the
f. as far as Allahabad, when 1t was
Mtel southwark to the province OF
eIcund in which the Marquis of Hast
vas carrying l war against the NAH
with 90, 900 men. OF the natives
had already died in Aliahabad. and
"a others had joined the army as camp
NerS among whom the disease crept
for several days, until a sufficient
Der of fOci had been developed for it to
forth with irresistible fury in every
tlom Tho natives deserted in great
erS and the highways and fields for
miles around were strewed with the
F OF those who had fled with the dis
upon them.
n encampments and lines Of march Of
army presented most deplorable spec
hundreds of soldiers dropped down
#"ry day 5 advance and on every nights
SO that the whole presented the APP
ounce or successive battlefields and the
VI an army rctreating under every
instance of defeat and discontinue.
o weeks 5000 men succumbed to the
ehte A subsidiary force coming up
'Ne south 10 corporate with Hastings
yea the second striking instance of Il
oody OF men in high health coming
peStllential region and falling ut
mo wretchel state OF sickness,
cases and twenty deaths occurred
us! Gay, and many were attacked
""eflrE for wafer at contaminated
5 and ,rivulets.
ITO" the festiIcnce Spread.
"W le-enforcements were advancing
'omoay in the southwest. and the
Vi the disease had long been so regu-
v"S the line of much-traveled roads
'ue marches of troops that the Bombay
oI'ues prepared for it when it was
hundreds OF miles off. Step by step
'eaSe could he traced. marching from
W ,oWn and creeping from village TO
Ge, ny the arrival of persons afflicted
~. ~ IRON places where it was known to
GI from Bombay it was carried up
m,h' 1T the head of the Persian
mere $4,000 persons died in eighteen
aUu from there along the Rivers
W I,ss ana Tigris to Bagdad. Damas-
;uppo' and the Mediterranean coast,
< yer ~ also faded away in 1921
avs ', successive epidemic of cholera has
,oeA carried up the Persian Gulf
UaE, Surat. Kurrachee and other
20, I"e western coast of India. and
N''"ed tho Mediterranean, Black