Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera : and on the pathology of mucous membranes / by Alex. Turnbull Christie.

Date:
1828
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Credit: Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera : and on the pathology of mucous membranes / by Alex. Turnbull Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    war, and also in many of the other towns and villages throughout the district. As he had permission to open the body of every patient who died in the jail, he had thus a better opportunity of becoming acquainted with the autopsy of the disease,- than usually falls to the lot of medical men in charge of native patients. It is rather a curious circumstance in the history of Cholera, that, for the last seven or eight years, it has made its appearance regu- larly every year, in the Southern Mahratta country, in the month of March or April, generally commencing in the southern parts, leaving one village to attack another; thus gradually proceeding northward, and disap- pearing in June or July, after the commence- ment of the heavy rains. Native doctors, with supplies of medicine, and instructions for the treatment of Cholera, were deputed by the Author (by order of Government) to those parts of the district where the disease was known to prevail; and the information which he thereby obtained