Show CHOLERA AND TREATMENT THE tite cholera scare continues to agitate the european public and to give alich concern to people anthis on this side of the atlantic the theory of the origin of this disease propounded by dr john chapman of paris panis Is being revived and newly investigated lie he was very successful in his bis treatment of the cholera in which was simply the simultaneous application of external cold and heat to the body in the thle stage of col coi collapse collais laps numerous ernea erles being the result even nth the pulse had bad ceased to beat dr ch chapmans Chap armali mans mang s the theories orles ard tu it as follows that the Imme immediate diat cause of all the phenomena of cholera consists in simultaneous congestion of the spinal cord and of the sympathetic nervous centres bentres cen tres t the e chief disposing predisposing pre causes of cholera are grean grear solar heat mod iuca inca eions of the state of atmospheric electricity ranging from slight disturbances to the tile most violent electric storms wide ranges of temperature i deficiency of ozone attacks of tile the disease that the chief exciting causes of cholera are noxious ei etau lluvia via vla impure water bad food and aud eating to excess purgative medicines dental irritation opium alcohol and other custo customary mary marl of the nedr nedd system viol violent brit mental emo emotions tivus especially fear in all its f forms ranging from low brooding ap apprehension to sense senseless iesso lesso panic that no proof wroot roaf of the existence of the so bated called cholera polson poison or I 1 1 cholera germs ins has ever been adduced and that there are very strong reasons for believing that they exist only inthe imagination of c certain ertain pathologists that cholera does not I 1 travel i as it is said to do f from rom row place pla pia ce to place but that it originates anew certain de dc finable conditions coexist co exist that though in the focus of a chole ra epidemic the tile influence gene generating generation ratin I 1 the disease Is often felt by persons persona who are not actually attacked by it and though when the influent influence ce tends to 10 render all within the sphere of it liable to attack the emanations of cholera patients I 1 like ike any other foul or unwholesome emanations may operate as exciting causes of the disease there are very strong reasons for be cholera is neither infects infectious I 1 ous ons nor contagious contagions conta gions lous ious that though their exciting causes are numerous and various cholera whether asiatic african european or american the so called 11 the 11 summer diarrhea of temperate climates and the tha cholera In int antum of the united states are really one oue and the same disease and that they are all alike essentially invariably an and 1 I exclusively phenomena na of if preternatural excitement and action of the tile nervous system that the main but by no means exclusive clu ciu sive cleme element nt of any rat rational lonal ional treatment of cholera consists in exer exerting tint a powerful and exclusively sedative rn influence as directly direct as P possible os sible sibie and at the same time both on the sympathetic nervous centres bentres and on the spinal cord these propositions are worthy the attention I 1 of medical men as well as the general public but how hov about dr koch and his little microbe when learned leaned doctors differ so widely who shall decide decider |