A treatise on cholera : containing the author's experience of the epidemic known by that name, as it prevailed in the city of Moscow in autumn 1830 and winter 1831 / by James Keir.

  • Keir, James, 1735-1820.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A treatise on cholera : containing the author's experience of the epidemic known by that name, as it prevailed in the city of Moscow in autumn 1830 and winter 1831 / by James Keir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Xll CHAPTER XI. MORBID APPEARANCES IN THE DEAD BODY. Page Section I. . . . . . 97 Section II.—Nature of the disease induced from the combined consideration of its symptoms and morbid anatomy 99 CHAPTER XII. PROPHYLAXIS. Section I.—Epidemic nature of the disease generally admitted, ib. Section II.—Cause of the disease generally supposed to be a miasm, ..... 100 Section III.—Propagation and communication of the disease, 101 Section IV.—Disease not strongly infectious, . 103 Section V.—Not communicated by simple contact, or by the dead body, ..... ib. Section VI.—Means of preventing its propagation and commu- nication considered; little if any utility from quarantine; the disease does not seem to be communicated by inanimate objects, ..... ib. Section VII.—On destroying the miasm, and noxious effluvia from the sick, with precautions on exposure to the action of these causes, . . . . 104 Section VIII.—Precautions used by the author himself, and his opinion M'^hy he escaped the disease, . . 106 Section IX.—Disease said to be communicated by the not affected, ib. Section X.—Cases of organic disease of abdominal organs ter- minating fatally, with the symptoms of the epidemic, 107 Section XI.—On prophylactic diet, . . ib.