Cholera : an analysis of its epidemic, endemic, and contagious character; with original and peculiar views of its mode of propagation and the means of counteracting it. Showing also by analogy that the means of preserving organized bodies from decay point to the only true curative principles in the treatment of fevers generally, and more especially cholera / by Henry Stephens.

  • Stephens Henry surgeon.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Cholera : an analysis of its epidemic, endemic, and contagious character; with original and peculiar views of its mode of propagation and the means of counteracting it. Showing also by analogy that the means of preserving organized bodies from decay point to the only true curative principles in the treatment of fevers generally, and more especially cholera / by Henry Stephens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ARE THERE ANY MEANS WHlCri WILL PRESERVE THE BLOOD FROM THESE CONTAMINATING INFLUENCES, OR WHICH WILL RENDER IT LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE EFFECT OF THESE POISONS ? My opinion is, that the remedy, if any, will be found in those drugs or means which have the power of pre- serving dead animal or vegetable substances from decom- position or decay.* * The connexion between the causes which produce putrefaction and decomposition of dead organised matter, and those which produce or excite the action of Cholera and fever in the living, is exemplified strongly in the following case, copied from the news- papers :— “ Shocking Case.—On Friday morning an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker, at the Town of Ramsgate public-house, High Street, Wapping, on view of the body of Samuel Coveney, aged twenty-three years, who died from Cholera on board the barge Sarah, under the following very shocking circumstances:— Sarah Coveney, the widow of the deceased, said her husband was master of the barge Sarah, and was in the employ of Mr. Cox, a lighterman, at Lambeth. For some time past the barge had been used to remove all kinds of dust, ashes, sweepings from streets, and vegetable matter, from Mr. Gower’s wharf, Blackfriars, the city contractor, to Raynham, in Essex, to be sifted, in consequence of its not being allowed to be done in London. About a week since the barge was loaded, and the deceased navigated the barge down the river. Witness and deceased were the only persons on board. They were unable to sleep in the berth in consequence of it being so close and confined, and the smell arising from the cargo was so dreadful, that they were obliged to sleep upon the locker for the purpose of obtaining fresh air. If a candle was lighted in the cabin, it would be directly extinguished by the foul air, and they were unable to keep the fire alight. Everything they had on board changed colour, and if the meat and provisions only remained C 2