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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    during the prevalence of incessant rains for months, and when the face of the earth was scorched by long continued heat and drought. The disease was very uniform in its principal features, and attacked almost indiscriminately people of all nations, and constitutions— both Europeans and natives. These cir- cumstances, as well as some striking fea- tures of the disease, induced the Board of Bombay to consider the name of Cholera Morbus as inapplicable, which we believe to be a general opinion. In the following ex- tract from the report of the Medical Board of Bengal, this severe disease, as it presented itself in its most violent form, is thus de- scribed :— * The attack was generally ushered in by ‘ sense of weakness, trembling, giddiness, nau- f sea, violent retching, vomiting, and purging of f a watery, starchy, whey coloured or greenish ‘ fluid. These symptoms were accompanied,