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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    inhabited on both shores of the St. Lawrence, cholera made a single leap, without infecting a single village or a single house between the two cities, with the following exceptions : A man picked up a mattress thrown from the Voyageur, and he and his wife died of cholera; another man, fishing on the St. Lawrence, was requested to bury a dead man from the Voyageur and he and his wife and nephew died. The captain of a passing boat requested an Indian to bury a man from on board; this man and five other Indians were at- tacked and died. The town of Three Rivers, halfway between Quebec and Montreal, forbade steamers to land, and escaped for a long time. From Montreal the great influx of emigrants were forwarded away, by the Emigrant Society, as fast as they arrived, and by them the pestilence was sown at each stopping-place. Kingston, Toronto, and Niagara soon became affected. In the end, over 4000 persons died of cholera in Mont- real and more than an equal number in Quebec. The epidemic reached Detroit in the same way, . . . . and continued west along the Great Lakes, until in Sep- tember it reached our military posts on the Upper Mississippi Fort Dearborn, near Chicago, was temporarily reoccupied in 1832, and it was here that epidemic cholera displayed its most fatal effects among our troops. Out of 1000 men, over 200 cases were admitted into hospitals in the course of ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ days When these troops again marched for the Missis'sippi. they appeared in perfect health, yet the cholera broke out again on the way and when the command reached the Mississippi it had been as fatal as it had been at Fort Dearborn.