Notes on the epidemic cholera / by R. Hartley Kennedy.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Notes on the epidemic cholera / by R. Hartley Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the corps in which I had myself served as assistant- surgeon for five years, and almost every individual in it more or less knew me, and was known by me, I had a more than common interest in rendering every assistance in my power. In the mean while the weather, as is usual in the first weeks of December, was delightfully pleasant; I would say remarkably so, being rather cooler than generally prevails until January. There was really nothing to which, by ever so far-fetched a reasoning, we could ascribe the situation of these poor people. The rest of the cantonment enjoyed perfect health, though breathing the same atmosphere, drinking water from the same wells, and procuring provisions from the same bazaar; whilst the most unrestrained intercourse existed betwixt the infected battalion and the other two healthy battahons of the station. The city of Baroda and its suburbs were reported to be unaffected, nor have I ever learned that the disease then existed in any of the adjacent villages; and yet this solitary, insulated body of hardy soldiery, in all the vigour of manhood, and exciting preparation for field service, encamped upon a dry and open spot of as healthy ground as any in the neighbourhood, within the hues of a populous cantonment, and only a mile distant from one of the largest cities in India, seemed devoted alone to the pestilence that walked in darkness, and the destruction that wasted at noon- day, without any assignable cause, but that the seeds of disease might have been sown in their constitution