The history of the contagious cholera ; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure. / By James Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, James, 1803-1868.
Date:
1831
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Credit: The history of the contagious cholera ; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure. / By James Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    NORTHERN PROVINCES. ing, however, some time after to Nagpore, the troops encamped, the morning of their last march, at a village distant nine miles from the city. Here the report had scarcely reached the encampment that the cholera was raging in the neighbourhood, when the troops themselves were attacked. As it usually happens, the early seizures were the most severe. Many individuals who were suddenly afflicted, while obtaining supplies of domestic necessaries in the vicinity, were brought in either i expiring or altogether dead. Of seventy cases admitted during that night and the day following, about twenty died. The later instances of attack were equally numerous *, but in these the corporeal exhaustion was less sudden, and the subsequent symptoms were also of diminished severity. A retrospective glance must now be directed to the course described by the cholera in travelling from the junction of the Ganges and Jumna over the greater part of the Northern Provinces of Hindostan. In the end of March, 1818, the disease became developed in Allahabad, and, moving progressively through this town and dis- trict, it destroyed ten thousand of the people in the lapse of a few months. On the western bank of the Jumna, and among many of the towns in d <2