Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-10-28 | Page 1 | Most Fatal of Diseases

t I MOST FATAL OF DISEASES Cholera Is probably the most severe and fatal of ot all diseases The Thc first symptoms are arc vomiting and diarrhea accompanied b by severe pain and antI with intense Int in intense In- In t tense ne thirst The symptoms now advance with rapidity Cram Cramps s of or the le legs g beet tet and muscles of ot the abdomen come on and occasion great grent a agony on while the signs feigns of collapse make their appearance appearance- The surface of ot the hod body becomes cold and assumes a blue or purple purDIe hue the skin is dr dry sodden and wrinkled indicating indi eating cating the intense draining awa away of ot the tho fluids of ot the body the features are pinched inched and the eyes deeply sunken the pulse at the wrist Is Imperceptible le and the voice Is IR reduced to a a. hoarse hoarse whisper In this condition death often otten takes place In less than one da day while in home mc In instances It proves fatal in ono one or two hours In most cases the mental faculties are comparatively unaffected It is generally reckoned that about one half of ot the cases of ot fully developed cholera prove fatal death taking place In most instances In from twenty four to forty hours In the first epidemic of or cholera in En England R-nd R Wales rales 5 deaths were tHre reported to the Board of Health and during the epidemic of or ISIS 1818 deaths were Wert tr recorded