Observations on Asiatic cholera: and facts regarding the mode of its diffusion / By T. Simpson.

  • Simpson, T., M.D.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Observations on Asiatic cholera: and facts regarding the mode of its diffusion / By T. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the expirations from the lungs, or from the surface of the body ; from the various secretions or discharges which occur during the progress of the disease, or from the vfear- ing apparel or bed-linen imbued with those excretions : these emanations being trans¬ mitted from the sick to the predisposed per¬ sons who may happen to be placed near enough to the patient to enable the poison to act with an intensity sufficient for the per- pose of infection. It is highly probable, that the disease is received by a person so placed, through the medium of the air thus impreg¬ nated acting on the delicate pulmonary tissue, and conveyed there during the act of respira¬ tion. It cannot be clearly ascertained at what distance such emanations are rendered innoc¬ uous by atmospheric dilution; but it is pro¬ bable that the distance will be much more