Again, in 1867, cholera visited Odessa.
I and my whole family wore these copper disks; and while all around
there were numerous cases of cholera and dysentery, not one of us was
attacked. I propose that serious experiments should be made in this
direction, and specially in those countries which are periodically
devastated by that disease: as India, for instance. It is my
conviction that one disk of copper on the stomach, and another of zinc
on the spine, opposite the former, will be of still better service, the
more so if the disks are joined by a thin copper chain.
--Gustave Zorn
In the first place it is necessary to say that the rules laid down by
Garga, Markandeya and others on the above subject, refer to the
inhabitants of the plains only, and not to dwellers on mountains. The
rule is that on retiring a man should first lie on his right side for
the period of sixteen breathings, then turn on his left for double that
time, and after that he can sleep in any position. Further, that a man
must not sleep on the ground, on silken or woollen cloth, under a
solitary tree, where cross-roads meet, on mountains, or on the sky
(whatever that may mean).
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