Cholera: 1832-1834; 1848-1850; 1854; 1856-1866;
1871-1873
Diptheria: 1856-1859; 1896; 1921
Influenza: 1807; 1826; 1879-1889; 1918-1919
Smallpox: 1868; 1882-1883; 1898; 1901-1903; 1905-1913
Typhoid Fever: Ths was usually a local epidemic.
Suggested
Cholera Remedies
Taken from Shelbyana
October 1998, No. 77
page 14
By a physician of Alabama: Put two drachms
of tobacco in a pint of hot water, take by mouth or as in injection.
By a physician of Tennessee: On the theory that cholera is
conveyed in the atmosphere, waffled in the currents -- give one grain
of opium and four grains of kino every half hour. To children,
give a strong tincture of cinnamon (a teaspoonful) every half
hour. (This tincture should be made out of bark.) Then strip the
patient and throw the coldest water we have over the whole body,
hastily wipe dry, and put into blankets, to be allowed to sweat, and
give him or her a little well-boiled corn-meal gruel.
(From a letter of May 1849, seen in a Yazoo County, Mississippi
publication.)