A treatise on Asiatic cholera / by Dr. Wheeler.

  • Wheeler, Dr. (John)
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on Asiatic cholera / by Dr. Wheeler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nemesis. This terrible and destructive plague has again made its appearance* After ravaging the territory of the Calmucks, it 1ms dissemi- nated in contagion among t he serfs of Nicholas. It has travelled from the walls of Astrachan to the hovels of Charkay, and appears to have already descended like a curse upon the inha- bitants of Kiev, on the banks of the Dnieper, There may unquestionably be much exaggera- tion in the accounts received from Caucasia, namely, that during an interval of nine months no less than 17,050 individuals were attacked with the disease in that kingdom, and that out of these 0,310 perished. There may be like- wise a certain decree of exaggeration in the assertion, that during its passage through the streets of Astrachan, 137 persons were smitten down with the cholera in a single day, viz : the 30th of July. But, heightened as in all its like- lihood the intelligence is, by the fear of its recipients, there cannot be a moment's doubt but that the pestilence is again abroad upon the wings of the wind, and that it is stealing gradually towards the centre of continental Europe. With the experience of 1832 before them, it becomes the bounden duty of the legis- lature to provide such measures of precaution as may tend to mitigate the miseries resulting from the cholera, in the event of its advancing so for in a south-westerly direction as to assail the population of these islands. Better even than the vigilance of the most stringent code of quarantine, are those simple measures of sana- tory legislation for which we have clamored so