A treatise on Asiatic cholera / by Dr. Wheeler.

  • Wheeler, Dr. (John)
Date:
1849
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    Xlll miles, thus in so short a period brought under its influence, few towns or villages of any considerable size wholly escaped its attacks. The only spots on the eastern side of the Ganges, beyond the precincts of Bengal, at- tacked by the epidemic in the autumn of 1817, were MoozmTerpore and Chupra, the principal stations of the Tirhoot and Sarun districts; and the cantonment of Ghazeepore; and in each of these places its attacks were confined to the towns themselves, or villages in their immediate vicinity : the great bulk of the adjoining country, at this period entirely escaping the disease. In the month of November it reached the central division of the grand army then en- camped in India, where the disease put forth all its strength, and assumed its most deadly and appalling form. After creeping about, however, in its wonted insidious manner, for several days among the lower classes of the camp followers; it, as it were in an instant, gained fresh vigor, and at once burst forth with irresistible violence in every direction. Unsubjected to the laws of contact and prox- imity of situation, which had been observed to mark, and retard the course of other pes- tilences, it surpassed the plague in the width of its range ; and outstripped the most fatal diseases, hitherto known, in the destructive rapidity of its progress, sparing neither sex nor uze in the undislinguishing virulence of 2