Cholera : what is it? and how to prevent it / By Edwin Lankester.

  • Lankester, Edwin, 1814-1874.
Date:
1866
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    CHAPTER I. HISTORY OP CHOLERA. There are few epidemic diseases ■which have excited more alarm and given rise to greater apprehensions than the disease known popularly as Cholera. Although this name, for a certain form of disease, has been familiarly known to medical men from the time of the Greek and Eoman writers on medicine, it has only been within the last fifty years that it has gained a special significance, and has been associated with the word Asiatic, to indicate more especially its origin on the continent of Asia. Previous to its outbreak in Hindostan, in 1817, the disease known by the name of cholera had never been seen as an epidemic disease in Europe, and certainly had never been regarded as contagious. In the autumn of the year in most countries of Europe, and also in Great Britain, the disease called cholera was familiar, and medical writers called it Cholera Morbus. This disease was attended with the symptoms of purging and