Asiatic cholera : its symptoms, pathology and treatment : with which is embodied its morbid anatomy, general and minute, translated from a paper by Drs. Reinhardt and Leubuscher / by Richard Barwell.

  • Barwell, Richard, 1827-1916.
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
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Credit: Asiatic cholera : its symptoms, pathology and treatment : with which is embodied its morbid anatomy, general and minute, translated from a paper by Drs. Reinhardt and Leubuscher / by Richard Barwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ASIATIC CHOLERA. CHAPTER L THE SHADOW OP A COMING EVENT. Cholera, or Asiatic Cholera, is a disease of epidemic character, which has always origi- nated in the East, and spread gradually to the West. Its course between the year 1845, its second epidemic appearance in India, and the year 1848, its second epidemic appearance in England, is as well known as is the course of our India mails, and the dates of its arrival at certain towns, its modes and rates of travel, are all as well ascertained. The statistics of its late visit to England are minute and circumstantial, and prove beyond all doubt, that the disease spreads by virtue of true epidemic, or atmospheric quality, and that contagion has little or nothing to do with it. Thus the disease seems to have broken out in Sunderland, Hull, and London, in each town, within a day or two -of its attack in the other; a circumstance which can hardly be considered