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A Boy Visits Cincinnati 9
Mrs. Foster and the children proceeded by steamboat to Louisville, where they ' made a visit of a week." The great fear of Mrs. Foster during the journey was "lest the Cholera Asphyzia should overtake us."2 As the newspapers show, an epidemic of cholera was then prevalent in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. An article13 instructing the public "to be prepared to meet it with all the means of prevention and cure which experience has shown to be efficacious" appeared in several journals, the author being the renowned Dr. Daniel Drake of the Medical College at Cincinnati. Mrs. Foster and Henrietta and Stephen escaped the pestilence and, as she wrote, "Bless God, ever merciful and gracious ... we arrived at home in good health."2 |
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