The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-14
DIR. BYRoN's SACRIFICE.
se Goes to Take Charge OF S"inourne
Island.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
A well-known physician of New
York city went into voluntary exile 9
to remain for no one knows u"
how long in the best hospitals at Swim =
burne Island. He is DR.. Byron, the
scientist and archaeological expert ana
lecturer at the Loomis laboratory. He
has given up his large practice for the .
time being, and will remain on SWIM
burne Island to fight the cholera De
will be forced to quarantine himself as
strictly as any of the patients are quar-
antined, and he does not expect 10 SET
foot on shore again till the danger Is
over. he made light CT the risK ne
was running and was not desirous OF
saving much about his action, but he
acknowledged that it would involve
financial sacrifice, as the salary PAID
him by the State would not nearly
equal the income which he derives
from his regular practice. DR.. Byron
| went to quarantine at first only as
archaeological expert to do anything
| except make examinations and micro
scopical analyses. But he was request
ed to remain and take charge OF the
nest station at Swinburne Island, and
he decided that it was his duty as
phvsician to accept the call. He, how
ever. is inclined to take a favorable
Iyiew of the situation and thinks that
| the trouble at quarantine will be over
| in probably five or six weeks.
| "Frost will kill the disease" "he sald'
"but if it does not develop now and the
proper sanitary precautions are not
taken, and if the vigilance Of the board
Of health of the city should be relaxed
!. in the slightest degree, the cholera
:, might break out in the spring and that
. would be bad matter"
"What result did your bacteriologl-
cal examination of the cholera dis
charges from the Normannia and Ru-
e gia have"
swell I don't wish to say officially
" and positively, but I have no doubt
81 whatever that the cases are those o'
y true Asiatic cholera. The symptoms
~ of the patients of the Normannia ane
y Rugia are too violent for anything else
- and they are those Of cholera Aslatic
" The term cholerine which has beel
!, used on the ships is a most elasti
- - term. The word means mild case Q
- cholera Asiatic. These case were no
a. mild"
10 "Do the patients suffer any pain :!
= aNo there is no pain connected VII
:. Asiatic cholera. That is a popuia
- faliacy. This is one Of the thing
~ which distinguish cholera Asiatic froI
49, cholera morbus. In the latter II
~ psin comes at once. In true choie'
=, the patient becomes apathetic and su
~ fers hardly any pain. It is really 9
- easy death to die. Cholera patients q
w ,er from asbpyxiation. The terrible von
- - iting and discharges thin the blood
~ greatly that what material IS left
I'll the blood coagulates and refuses to c'
~ ~ culate. This produces an excess
sar carbonic acid gas in the system Wnl'
~ causes asphyxiation. This same G.
49, 49, bonic acid gas is what nunbs the pa
-, D in q manner and renders the patlei
asn m to a large extent insensible to pa
= 20 The only pain during the progress
S the disease consists in cramps IN
,da M calves of the legs, which are due to
~. fex action. The cramps in the bow
., ~ do not begin until the end, when DEF
,art. approaches.
80, "We are treating the patients n
=, ~ with the salt and water remedy
~ .auo covered by the Italian physician,
~. Catani, known as hypodermocy
49,, We inject weak solution of salt
!, water, warmed up to the temporal
.;ou. of the human body. AS fast as
,,on fluid matter leaves the patient we
~ - new it by injecting this solution ur
the skin. We use enormous qua
,r,, ties of it, sometimes giving pat
80 :, 20 to 80 times day. This keeps
- ;n blood going. Then, to check the {
y 49, 49, rhea, injections of a solution OF til
ara uut into the stomach. we
Law about two or three quarts day
,+aa each patient. 1t not only checks
~ 49, diarrhes, but also produces com
). .La the bacteria and kills them.
"The vomiting, which is so ma
A a feature of the disease, is particu
s,,one distressing to the physicians, oee
'a. osts it precludes the possibility of intro
aso ing medicines through the mouth
~ tSo the stomach, therefore, viii +
neads nothing. The general Treatment
.- ~ sides the injections, is to give
ou .ao..a drugs as can give relief, with or
' .as,S and water to keep up the vitai'
, 'a, ~orr the system. The patients are kept
:. CO.. as much as possible, and their
~ he mems are kept warnl and dry.
-, ,,sn "The symptoms Of the patient
~ those of Asiatic cholera" said Dl
. r. ron. 1.-THE dead people had all tt
pearance OF cholera dead. Theil
n r. were sunken deeply in the so
" their skin was dry and like parcn
.~- 80 that it could be pulled from the
and 80 inelsstic it would stay thai
and their frames were of course "
IL you away ~ va ~. ot.otohod over