Treatise on cholera asphyxia, or epidemic cholera, as it appeared in Asia, and more recently in Europe. With practical remarks on the disease in Europe, an appendix of cases, and the reports and regulations of the Boards of Health of London and Edinburgh / by George Hamilton Bell.

  • Bell, George Hamilton.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Treatise on cholera asphyxia, or epidemic cholera, as it appeared in Asia, and more recently in Europe. With practical remarks on the disease in Europe, an appendix of cases, and the reports and regulations of the Boards of Health of London and Edinburgh / by George Hamilton Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    healthy. The immediately following case in the pa- pers is of the same description, and is an interesting example of the disease not crossing a river. It is that of the village of La Nouvelle Saratova, which is chiefly inhabited by Germans, with a population of about 1000.—* .A servant belonging to one of the families who arrived on the 26th of June, O.S., complained of being cold, and being slightly indisposed that very day, but attended to her ordinary occupations until the 30th, when she was suddenly attacked with vo- miting and purging towards evening. During the night violent cramps came on; she had but three motions, and vomited but twice in all. Hands and - feet very cold and blue, lips blue; died in twenty hours from the first attack of purging. ‘The above is the evidence of the woman of thé house. ‘The medi- eal man who saw. the sick maid about an hour before her death, stated that she had all the symptoms of Cholera. Zhe woman of the house, the mother of the maid, ana others, were about her in her illness ; none of them attacked.”—Papers, p. 46. The bed- ding on which she lay and died was given to a beggar, and was afterwards carefully traced, and found to have been used with impunity. This case, there- fore, so far from proving the disease to be contagious, strikingly illustrates the peculiarity to which I have already adverted, viz. that when a Cholera patient is carried beyond the tainted spot, the disease’ is not communicable to those about him. | We are next ‘told that Cholera was carried to the village of Colpina by a party of healthy marines, who left St Petersburgh on the 21st of June and arrived at Colpina on the 23d.“ They had been all examined before aes marched, and brought a certificate of 203 H 2