Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — An Antidote for Cholera. [ARTICLE]

An Antidote for Cholera.

A disc'very has been made in regard to cholera, namely, that marriage is 'a prophylactic so far ash men ar? concerned. Recent Statistics of the choir era in France show that married men are much less liable to be attacked by cholera than bachelors. In a population of 100,003 men between the ages of 25 and 50, unmarried men died of cholera, while only eighteen married men fell victims to the disease. Between the ages of 30 and 35 the mortality from cholera was seventy-eight among bachelors, and twenty-one among married mon, and between the ages of 50 and 55. 167 unmarried men and—only thirty-seven married men died. It is thus evident that, in time of cholera the married man has more than three times as many chances of life as the unmarried man has. No attempt has yet been made to explain this remarkable fact, but it is not on the whole, difficult of explanation. The married man lives in crcumstances much more favorable to health than those in which the bachelor lives. For instance, his foedis better, for he has a wife to look after it, and in many cases he buys his meat, his groceries, and his vegetables himself, whereas the unmarried man daily risks his digestion at restaurants or trifles reCklessl v with it at boardinghousa tables. The married man's linen and sheets are properly aired, and he is made to change his clothing when the weather changes, to wear rubber overshogs, and to go to bed at decent hours, whereas the bachelor Ims no one to see that he is properlycloth§d,and tliat he does not risk his health by keeping unholy hours. If a calm frame of mind and an absence of nervous dread contributes to an exemption from cholera, the married man is peculiarly ’fortunate. In cholera time the moment the nervous bachelor feels the slightest pain he begins to fancy that he may have contracted the cholera, and he ends by frightening himself into a genuine attack. On the other hand, when the married man has a pain he mentions it to his wife, who instantly replies: . “Stuff and nonsense! You’ve no more got the cholera than I have. Why, I have just such a pain as that every day in the week,” whereupon the married man is encouraged and consoled and straightway forgets the cholera. In case he really has symptoms of the disease his wife promptly sends for the doctor and compels her husband to keep quiet and take the proper remedies, but the unfortunate tachelor who is smitten with cholera sees himself deserted by frightened servants, and is left to die or recover by himself.— N. Y. Times.