Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    next morning he got np and went to the medical attendant, from whom he got some medicines, which he attempted to take, but vomited up the whole im- mediately, when cramps came on, and, in the evening, another medical gentleman saw him; but he died in a few hours after. No one in the house had diarrhoea, or cholera, pre- vious to this man's illness; nor has any one been ill with diarrhoea or cholera since. This man was a temperate, well-behaved person ; and the landlady is net aware that he visited any person labouring under diarrhoea, or under cholera. The first medical gentleman who prescribed for this man, says, that he laboured under a true attack of Asiatic cholera. Case No. 117. Aug. 1st.—At No. 3, Argyle Eow, Argyle Square, Gray's Inn Lane, St. Pancras, a man, aged sixty-six, is reported, in the E.. G. W. R. for 4th Aug., 1855, to have died of Asiatic cholera; diarrhoea, six days. I ha^e been to the house, and I there saw his daughter-in-law, who informed me, that the man en- joyed good health; that for above ten days, or may be more, he had a diarrhcca; that he went several times to consult a medical gentleman, but that the diarrhoea was not stopped. The day before his death he was suddenly seized with vomiting, spasms, etc., and he gradually got worse, although medical aid was obtained; and he died in less than twenty-four hours from the time he began to vomit. He became very blue all over his body some hours before death, and