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The Windsor Castle sailed with leave to call at Madras for letters or passengers, and in a few days was again at anchor in the roadstead. The first intelligence which they received upon their arrival was, that the cholera morbus had been very fatal, and that among others, the old colonel had fallen a victim to the disease. Newton again obtained permission to go on shore to Isabel.
Antiochus, surnamed the "Madman," was also afflicted with it; and Josephus makes mention of it as afflicting the body of Herod the Great. The so-called "King Pym" died of this "morbus pedicularis," but as prejudice and passion militated against him during his life and after his death, this fact is probably more rumor than verity.
By some modern authors the mistletoe is said to be of signal service in the cure of certain convulsive distempers, which, by their suddenness, their violence, and their unaccountable symptoms, have been ever considered as supernatural. The epilepsy was by the Romans for that reason called morbus sacer; and all other nations have regarded it in the same light.
It would be strange if my first case of this kind should be one of our boarders! What kind of a case do you call it? I said, with a sort of feeling that he could inflict a severe or a light malady on me, as if he were a judge passing sentence. The color reminds me, said Dr. B. Franklin, of what I have seen in a case of Addison's Disease, Morbus Addisonii.
I hope she is better now?" "Yes, sir, thank Heaven, she is well over it!" said Reuben, satisfaction now expressed in every lineament of his honest face. "What was the matter with her? Was it the cholera morbus, that is so prevalent at this season?" Reuben grinned from ear to ear; but did not immediately reply. The judge looked as if he still expected an answer.
And then it is so delightful! He gave a long whistle. 'Every one to his taste, he said; 'especially you ladies. He did come to the Cathedral with us, but he had more than half spoilt this last Sunday. Did he value her for what was best in her, or was her influence raising him? 'Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and fears, The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. C. Morbus, Esq.
Middleton, followed, all silent, for the Rev. Doctor was ostensibly pondering; and Willoughby was damped a little when he unlocked his mouth to say: "And yet I have not observed that Colonel de Craye is anything of a Celtiberian Egnatius meriting fustigation for an untimely display of well-whitened teeth, sir: 'quicquid est, ubicunque est, quodcunque agit, renidet:: ha? a morbus neither charming nor urbane to the general eye, however consolatory to the actor.
They spring from the superfluities of the principal organs, which nature expels, as it were, to the emunctories and localities designed to receive this flux." ... "Hence they are often found the cause of scabies, tinea, malum mortuum, cancer, fistula, etc., and are called glandes. The disease is also called morbus regius, because it is cured by kings."
"I is de greatest doctor in his country," replied Sam. "Ef you ever get sick, call on me. No matter what ails you, I is de man dat can cure you in no time. If you do hab de backache, de rheumatics, de headache, de coller morbus, fits, er any ting else, Sam is de gentleman dat can put you on your feet wid his pills." For a long time after, Sam did little else than boast of his skill as a doctor.
Here one took in at a mouthful a bunch of grapes, from which might have been pressed a good quart. Another was lying on the ground from a surfeit of mulberries. The effect of this irrational excess will be conceived by the judicious reader. Calcutta itself never suffered from a cholera morbus half so fearful. Thousands were dying. Were I Thucydides or Boccaccio, I would write pages on this plague.
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