Posted on 09/18/2019 4:26:40 PM PDT by NRx
We write under the weight of a great national calamity. Zachary Taylor, Twelfth President of the United States, expired, with perfect calmness, at Washington last night at 35 minutes past 10 o'clock, after a painful illness of little more than five days. His disease began with cholera morbus, which passed into a billious remiitant fever; he was treated with all the skills that science could form and affection render vigilant, as we learn, after the old system of practice, with purging, by calomel and otherwise, and blistering.
Gen. Taylor had endeared himself to the American people to a degree which few public men ever attain. The cause of this lay in the great goodness of his heart, the exceeding sincerity of his character, in his transparent common sense so broad and strong as to amount to wisdom, in a firmness that faced every danger and shunned no responsibility, and in a patriotism and sense of honor which threw an almost chivalrous halo over the sturdy elements of his nature. Not a statesman by genius or habit, he brought to the Presidency a sound practical judgement which often proved more reliable than those long versed in political affairs. A Southern man and a slaveholder, his mind was above the narrow prejudices of district and class and steadily aimed at the good of the nation as a whole.
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“A Southern man and a slaveholder, his mind was above the narrow prejudices of district and class and steadily aimed at the good of the nation as a whole.”
Now that you mention it, democrats will try and purge his name and edifices,
Or he might have lived.
Cholera in 1850
I doubt it.
Tens of thousand die of it every year today
I’m wondering how long it will be before some of our current cancer treatments will be similarly outmoded.
People do what they can do, with what they understand at the moment. We just don’t understand enough, yet - and it seems to have been ever thus.
True, but not everyone died of it. Cholera kills mainly by dehydration because of diarrhea and vomiting. Mercury salts (”calomel”) cause more diarrhea.
“Neither branch of Congress did anything worthy of special notice yesterday.”
Cholera, not only for the 19th Century, but now coming to an illegal alien camp or homeless settlement near you!
Those are good points. However, even in 1850, treating every disease with chemical purgatives was being challenged by those who observed that cholera patients, for example, lived longer if they were kept cool and given beef broth.
Zachary Taylor was a Whig. His daughter married Jefferson Davis.
We know what causes cholera. Put a few drops of bleach or, if you prefer, alcohol in your water. (Is Yemen still having a cholera epidemic?)
Yep,
All sorts of disease that had been banished from our shores are returning thanks to the Democrats strategy to obtain a permanent majority in Congress.
There are those - today, and for quite a while - who have maintained that destroying the immune system is not a sensible way to deal with cancer.
I guess we’ll continue to ‘live and learn’...
Or die and learn ... the way it’s always been.
Yes.
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Probably Jim Robinson’s Great Great Grandfather.
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