Remarks on diphtheria, chiefly with reference to its contagious, epidemic, and fatal character : and to its supposed connexion with the cattle plague, and with a certain state of the weather founded on the details of several recent cases / by T.W. Belcher.

  • Belcher, T. W. (Thomas Waugh), 1831-1910.
Date:
[1866]
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Credit: Remarks on diphtheria, chiefly with reference to its contagious, epidemic, and fatal character : and to its supposed connexion with the cattle plague, and with a certain state of the weather founded on the details of several recent cases / by T.W. Belcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their illness, contracted diphtheria about the same time, and died of it. In her case the disease was presumably traceable to the fact that a niece of the lady in Case III. had left the house in this city on the occurrence of her aunt’s illness and had gone home, taking with her a sore throat. She slept with the young lady of whose death I am now writing. In both these instances the apparent propagators of the disease recovered, while those apparently taking it from them died. There were no other cases of diphtheria in that neighbourhood, save in a small island some miles off the coast of Schull, where there wTere five cases. Since the occurrence of the above deaths, epidemic sore throat seemed to have prevailed to some extent. Immediately on my going to the town of which mention is now made, I fell ill with ulcerated sore throat, plus an ash-coloured pharyngeal exudation, which a sound practitioner in that neighbourhood burned out in three days by applying to it a strong solution of nitrate of silver.