The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-15
DON'T GET FRIGHTENED.
An English Army Officers Advice to
Those Stricken With the Plague
From the Neto York Sun.

an English Army Officers Advice to
those Stricken With the Plague
From the Neto York sun.
"At least so per cent. of the people who
die when attacked by cholera die of fright, "
said an English army officer the other night
at an uptown hotel. The officer is man Of
middle age, who has passed over twenty
years OF his life In Burmah and India. He
has seen genuine Asiatic cholera in its dead
lest forms, and, like most of the English
men there, got used to it." BY way OF
| Illustration OF his remark he told the follow
ing story:
while in Burmah a fellow officer, an old
and very intimate friend of mine, was at
tackled with the disease was away at the
time he was taken sick, but returned soon
enough to find that he had been given I'D
by the physicians and all his friends. and
was looked on as practically dead. Every
one had stopped coming to see him and he
was lying in his room alone. l couldn't
bring myself to believe that the man who
had been through so many rough expert
ences with me was going to lie down and
die in that manner, and l determined to
make an attempt to brace him up.
II went into his room and walked over to
the bed, and said, Hello old boy! What's
the matter with your he turned over and
said, Pm done for, this time; the cholera's
got me- Nonsense l said. Cholera /!
You've no more cholera than L have: little
attack of dysentery.
Then looked at the table by his bed
| and saw half glass Of milk that he had
been drinking standing there | took the
milk up and said, Pm awfully hot, old fell
low; you won't mind my drinking your
milk. will youP He turned over aud said,
For Gods sake, don't drink that; I've been
drinking it, you'll get the cholera
| laughed and said, Nonsense; | tell Won
you've no more cholera than have Then
drank the milk right in front Of him.
After this | sat down and talked cheerfully
with him for quite while. and left him
feeling much better and more hopeful.
when the physician called on him that
night he hardly knew his patient. The
crisis had passed, for instead OF giving way
to the weakness that followed and diving
without an effort to save himself, he began
to pick up, and 10 few days was well. OF
course, he had the cholera, and | ran some
risk. but saved him aud didn't kill myself. "
This same officer told Of trip that he took
In Burmah up one of the estuaries with
party of 800 coolies. On the return trip
the cholera broke out among them.
One night he went to bed at the end of
one OF the barges on which they we're
floating down stream, the coolies stretching
themselves out at the other end. During
the nlgnt tnere was more or less NOV
ing about, and several times be felt some
ones arm or leg thrown across his own.
Each time he half woke up and kicked it off :;
then he fell asleep again. In the morning
when he arose be found himself lying be-
tween the bodies Of two coolies, both Of
whom had died during the night. 1t was
these men that he had been kicking all
night. Before the trip was over me fifty
of the coolies had died. He himself never
was touched with cholera.
The officer maintains that if people will
not get excited aud Frustrated with fear
their chances of surviving the cholera are
very good. even if attacked, and then they
are not likely TO be attacked then either.