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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    he was taken ill; and every one in the house was, and all have remained since, perfectly free from diarrhoea or cholera. Case No. 7. July 2Srd, 1855.—Marylebone, St. John's. At 37, Princess Street, the daughter of a tailor, aged nine months, is reported, in the Registrar General's Weekly Return for 28th July, 1855, to have died at the above-named house of choleraic diarrhoea. The mother of this child informed me that the child's habit was to have one passage in her bowels daily; that for a fortnight previous to her being taken ill, she remarked that the child had two, and sometimes three, liquid stools daily, without any pain or uneasiness; that she believed the looseness was owing to her teething. However, three days before her death, on going to take her up out of her bed, she foun^ her, to use her own words, swimming in a liquid evacua- tion ; and after having washed her, and made her comfortable, she had another very copious evacua- tion ; and during the next twelve hours she had several such copious painless evacuations, when she began to vomit and to scream, and draw up her limbs, as if in pain. The medical attendant was sent for, and he pre- scribed ; but from that moment neither medicines nor food could remain on her stomach ; the moment she took anything she both vomited and purged. She sank on the third day. She did not pass water for the last twenty-four hours; and the mother did not remark that she