Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-09-29
THAT ELBE WATER.

disaoles man both morally and
physically.
This is wonderfully good news
and has cheered me up immensely,
If I am struck down the result
will be of negative value, because
it will merely go to show that 80
far the Hafkine inoculation is
null. On the other hand, if I do
not have the cholera I can yet
show that I have passed the cholera
germs through my intestines.
This will go further than aught
else to demonstrate the value of
the incubation to which I have
submitted.
WHAT IS IN THE FUTURE.
If it is SO the Herald will have
made a great discovery, interesting
to every human being I shall
proceed at once to have the ne
cessary meteorological examina-
tion made. I must apologize to
the six gentlemen with whom 1
sat down to eat this evening. I
had omitted to take the usual
precaution. My hands. had they
known it, reeked of cholera. You
laymen possibly don't know how
overpowering the smell of cholera
is. You professional men do. I
But I behaved Loyalty at that meal.
touched nothing that I did not
eat, nothing that with my cholera
smirched hands, had touched
went beyond me.
ALMOST cHoKED HIMSELF.
In this conscientious effort I
nearly choked myself eating q
large piece of black bread. / could
not leave it. Any morsel of it
would probably have been
liafectious. 1t had to go dewss .
= Zone of the principal warnings,
and upon which Herr Director
Rumpf had laid stress, was that
which prohibited eating with un-
cleansed hands. That is the surest
way to take this illness. There
was yet another rule which is
looked upon as one of the principal
and to which Herr Rumpf had
specially called my attention. 1t
was that referring 70 the extreme
care which should be taken not
to put ones fingers to the mouth.
All through the day 1 handled
cholera patients in every condi-
ton.
Ishould not be justified in q
apaper notstrictly and technically
medical in detailing too much of
the realistic side of the picture It
would be too grewsome for the
general reader. Suffice it to say
that / undertook all the details
of nursing cholera patients. But
the point of it all is that I cons
tantly not only rubbed my hands
over my mouth Immediately after
touching the sick, but inserted
my fingers into my mouth. This
1 reported probably twenty times
during the day.
A SEVERE TEST.
In the evening at 1890 I had
just served the patient Offermann
with soda water and seltzer. He
was one of the cases marked Every
bad" When he had finished with
the mugI took it into the bath
room, drained out the rest of the
soda water and carefully allowed
my lips to dwell upon the edges
of the mug exactly where his had
been. This certainly put me into
immediate contact with the chol-
are microbe. Offermann is now
one of the "goue cases."
IMPORTANT TRIALS.
Thus in one day with my sys-
tenn thoroughly open to infection
which always preys quicker up.
on the stranger coming into con-
tact with the disease thar. upon
another have made the fol-
lowing essays:
First. I have touched food with
my hands virtually reeking with
cholera.
Second. I have handled chol-
era patients constantly and after
ward put my hands in my mouth.
Third. I have drank from the
same mug after a cholera patient,
touching with my mouth the
edges where he had touched.
Fourth have slept in the bed
ola dead cholera patient and be-
tween two patients in an active
state of the disease.
Fifth. have drank of water
which comes from the Elbe, and
which is the cause of all the ILL
ness here. I got the water from
outside the door of Ward F.
Sixth. / have drank water from
the Elbe taken from the river it.
self at the point just outside the
water-works which supply the
town. This last test I made yes
terday, drinking two glasses at 6
o'clock in the evening. Ny tenn