The cholera : its origin, idiosyncracy [i.e. idiosyncrasy], and treatment / by Ferdinand E. Jencken.

  • Jencken, Ferdinand Edward, 1823-1881.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The cholera : its origin, idiosyncracy [i.e. idiosyncrasy], and treatment / by Ferdinand E. Jencken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its deadly march. Moscow, as well as the entire district on the hanks of the Wolga, were the first to be attacked; it soon spread to St. Petersburg, where, from the marshy nature of the soil, it speedily assumed gigantic pro- portions, no less than 15,000 dying in six weeks, in the year 1831. Livonia was the next to be invaded, till, descending along the Baltic, it rapidly involved Germany, France, and Italy, passing over to the British Isles, and extending to the shores of Spain. What rendered this calamity the more direful in its effects was the utter helplessness of the faculty, and their confessed ignorance as to the patho- logy and management of this plague. Since then, the public have been furnished with many able reports on the course, symptoms, prognosis, and diagnosis of the cholera, together with a minute description of the organs and tissues, as they appear after death; the textures, blood, and secretions from the body have been analysed; chemistry and the microscope have been brought to bear on the subject, and yet with all the experience of the past, and the improved appliances at the command of modern science, no clue has till now been . afforded