History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe ... / by Bisset Hawkins.

  • Hawking, Francis Bisset, 1794-1894.
Date:
1831
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Credit: History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe ... / by Bisset Hawkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this disease, whose symptoms had been already published for the information of all. Carriages were provided in every quarter for the immediate transport of the sick to the hospitals. The authorities and citizens of Moscow appear to have devoted themselves to the perfecting these arrangements with the utmost zeal and discretion : in two weeks the whole detail of administration was com- plete, and scarcely was it completed, when, on the 15th of September, the dreaded dis- ease disclosed itself, and an individual of the lower class died of it. In the Abeille du Nord are contained the following precautionary regulations against the invasion of Cholera, prescribed by the Russian government to the inhabitants of Nij ni-Novgorod. 1. To avoid sudden chills as much as B 2