Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-08
SIR EDWIN SAYS BE BRAVE.
Arnold Declares Only towards and Il
Dirty Die Of Cholera.

Arnold Declares Only towards and the
Dirty Die of Cholera.
A New York World reporter saw Sir Edwin
Arnold in Montreal on Monday morning. He
laughed heartily when told of the cholera scare.
NOW you have me right at home, and II you
have time can talk on this subject all night.
Cholera is phantom that frightens people;
there is really no danger if people are healthy.
"Is there any fear Of the cholera reaching
Canada this year or not2'' he was asked.
mot the slightest. Dismiss that scare at
once. The cholera bacillus can only exist at a
temperature Of 20 degrees and certainly cannot
withstand one Canadian frost Neither can ii
be dormant during the winter. If the cholera
breaks out here next year II will be from fresh
importations from an infected center and not
from any germs that come here now. But tell
me why are you 30 afraid Of cholerai 1t is
only under exceptional circumstances that q
strong, healthy man can take cholera. Don't
be afraid OF it. Don't drink water or milk un-
less it has previously been boiled and keep your
stomach well acidulated. Take five drops Of
hydro-chloric acid in half cup OF hot tea and
you can walk unframed in the midst of cholera.
It is nos one-half as deadly as either consump-
ton or bronchitis. Do you know the action Of
cholera bacillus2 It Is very simple. It can only
exist and flourish when the bowels are enfeebled
by diarrhoa.
''As long as the ordinary mucus coating is on
the bowels the bacillus is powerless for harm.
But when the bowel il denuded of this covering
then the number of bacilh can shear off the vel
vety surface and thus permit the serious portion
OF the blood to ooze into the bowel. This is
what forms the characteristic rice water dis
charge. The blood thus becomes thickened,
the heart can no longer discharge it's functions
and the patient dies of collapse. | have seen
the blood as thick as treacle in the veins of men
who have died OF cholera In India have IL
always with US, because there the average tenn
perature rarely falls under so degrees. In Japan
the death-rate always falls off with the cold
weather. The first frost pinches the nose of
the cholera microbe. He is powerless for harm
below 20 degrees.
'.Asiatic cholera starts with painless but per-
sistent diarrh9a- Perhaps q few choleraic
pains may supervene, and some patients have
cramps In their legs. Then the rice water
discharges set in. the blood becomes thickened,
the eyes fall in, the lips become blue and cold
and the features pinched. A deadly faintness
supervenes, the heart can no longer propel the
clotted blood through the arteries and the
patient dies Of collapse. Out Of ten people
who die of cholera thirty die of sheer fear.
Boil your milk and water, scald your vegetables
and go about your business and you will mover
take cholera. Only the weakly and the dirty
die of cholera. The clearly, the strong and
the brave can afford to laugh at it. II ia a dis
ease of dirt and cowardice. Quarantine is all a
bosh. You can't quarantine cholera. 1t will
creep in through a keyhole. You can't guard
against it except by taking care of yourself and
not being afraid Of it.
at is simply question of temperature and
cleanliness. Take my word for it. you will have
no cholera in Canada this year, and il it does
come you need not be afraid Of it. Why, I am
going straight back to London and after that to
Hamburg. / am not half as much afraid Of
cholera as l am of bronchitis"