Hints to prevent cholera : also as to its treatment / presented by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.

  • Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
Date:
[1892?]
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Credit: Hints to prevent cholera : also as to its treatment / presented by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    hoped, may be useful in preventing this dis- ease, or, should it unfortunately appear, may suggest important remedies. Richard A. McCurdy, President. Cholera is a disease which exists at all seasons of the year in some parts of the world, from which it is capable of being disseminated or propagated through the atmosphere or in other ways—mainly by means of intercourse between healthy and sick. Under favorable conditions for its growth it has lately become epidemic in certain points. During hot seasons but little rain usually falls, and mere showers of rain are dangerous, as they simply give enough moisture to the surface of the soil to favor the development of a disease like cholera. Copious rains and heavy floods, however, have been con- sidered as destroyers of the disease by drown- ing it out. The latter part of Summer and early Autumn have generally been the worst seasons for this disease. The poison of