Cholera : its origin, history, causation, symptoms, lesions, prevention, and treatment / by Alfred Stillé.

  • Stillé, Alfred, 1813-1900.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Cholera : its origin, history, causation, symptoms, lesions, prevention, and treatment / by Alfred Stillé. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Service, from 1871 to 1882, etc., compiled and arranged by Surgeon-General C. A. Gordon, M. D., C. B., Lon- don, 1884, it is stated that cholera has been known in China from time immemorial. But, judging by the account furnished of its causes and symptoms, the dis- ease described by the older Chinese authors was prob- ably not epidemic cholera, but cholera morbus. The • former disease became known in China about 1669, and again prevailed in 1761 and 1769. On each occa- sion it was introduced from India. At the same time that it began to spread from the latter country toward the north-west—viz. in 1817—it was also carried in a north-easterly direction to China. In 1820 it ap- peared at Canton, and reached Pekin the following year. Similar incursions took place in 1826, and also from 1840 to 1843, when they seem to have ceased until 1858, after which the disease prevailed an- nually for ten years. It was then again suspended, and did not revive until 1877, in which year and in subsequent years it prevailed to a greater or less degree. The East Indian epidemics of the present century do not appear to have reached Japan until two years after they had invaded China—viz. in 1821-22 • but if the Japanese chronicles have been correctly interpreted an epidemic of cholera occurred in 1718 in the city of Yedo, the mortality from which exceeded 80 000 a month. The dead were so numerous that their inter- ment was impossible, and their bodies were consigned to the adjoining bay. In 1854, Japan was severely affected by cholera, said to have been imported by the U. S. frigate Mississippi; after which there was no re-