Notes on the epidemic cholera / [Richard Hartley Kennedy].

  • Kennedy, Richard Hartley, -1865
Date:
1827
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Credit: Notes on the epidemic cholera / [Richard Hartley Kennedy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    myself with this consolatory hope, that even if 1 should prove utterly unsuccessful in my desire to present a new view of this important and interest- ing subject, I may at least enjoy the praise of good intention, in having endeavoured to be useful, by imparting the result of my reading, my experience, and my observations. The plan which I propose to myself is simply and briefly to state what 1 have seen and done, and what 1 have thought I saw in the practice of others ; accompanied by illustrative arguments borrowed from other diseases, and striking facts gathered from the statements of eye-witnesses, or briefly extracted from authentic documents; and then my theory, as grounded on such foundations, respecting the nature of the disease, and the safest system of treatment. The commencement of the Epidemic in the Zil- lah of Jessore, about a hundred miles N. E. of Cal- cutta, in August 1817; how it travelled across the Peninsula from east to west, against the prevailing winds, which are westerly, and reached the Bom- bay coast, exactly in one year; the wide and con- tinually spreading range of its progressive course ;