Dysenteria serosa, or Convulsive nervous 'cholera' of Hindostan : an essay, containing a short statement of its progress from Asia, in 1817, to its suspected appearance in England, in 1831 : wherein a new view of the essential principles, symptoms, and operation of that disease is shewn, and a practical, easy, and efficacious remedy illustrated / by Philanthropos.

  • Gray, W.H.C.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Dysenteria serosa, or Convulsive nervous 'cholera' of Hindostan : an essay, containing a short statement of its progress from Asia, in 1817, to its suspected appearance in England, in 1831 : wherein a new view of the essential principles, symptoms, and operation of that disease is shewn, and a practical, easy, and efficacious remedy illustrated / by Philanthropos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    infected places was known to have existed ? or why should it appear to have traversed the ocean to that point,if not communicable from man to man? In reply, it may be observed, that there has been no evidence of any of the Crews of vessels having had the Disease, and why should they have escaped its earlier influ- ence ? It may with equal propriety be asked, why did the deadly plague of the sixth century, most probably, a similar species of Distemper, (although not minutely described by Procopius, under the term Cholera, and which took its rise in Lower Egypt,) traverse the whole habitable Globe for the space of fifty-two years, and then suddenly disappear in the midst of its apparently contagious course ? It destroyed its victims by thousands, generally within twenty-four hours, and yet that Author asserts, that the Physicians, and those who tended the sick and buried infected persons, continued free; and many catching it, they knew not how, and dying instantly. Again, why did the Disease, termed the Black Plague, of the fourteenth century, appear, progress, and disappear, in the same way; or, more recently, that of 1666, offering the same immunity to the attendants on the infected ? The very convolutions of the sphere under influence of planetary phenomena, may, at different periods of time, generate a diseased principle of the earth and its inhabitants, and again return to healthy action—these are mysterious events in the grand scheme of Providence, which cannot be satisfactorily explained, even by the subtile agency of human ingenuity!