Cholera morbus : its causes, prevention, and cure; with disquisitions on the contagious or non-contagious nature of this dreadful malady / by Sir Henry Halford [and others].

  • Halford Henry, Sir bart., 1766-1844.
Date:
1831
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    by th« other (endemick) i» meant ■ dieeme which proceed* from the exhaletiotu of the earth; of whkh intermittent freer, oommooly railed ague, may otrr* a* an exaiD|de. The want of attention to thla simple distiaction ha* giyeo occasion to an iocredibie aoMNint of unintelltgiMc/atrpoa, and molliplied aopbistrie* in the wearMome eoatroreray regarding contagion. I need not add that the epidemkk alone are oontagiows that k, communicable; the other, the eutfemick, aerer ao. And in order to diaentaiigie the suljerv fratn further risk of ambiguity, it hi only nei iwwarr, in addition to the durrimi- iiatiag eharacter already mentioned, toenamerate a lew of the most remarkahie pecnliiiritiea, partictUariy those martuug its diilereiKO from the EagUsh cholera, rsennisig tndtmioiJjf in the enJ of summer and beginning of attUtsan. The dis- I'harges in the Indian disease consist of a U^[uid resemhling thin gniel; in the English dhtnse they are leculeat and hilimta. The origin and main amt of both is the howek; sad I repeat that-after striking a pereon apparently in good health like Ugfatnbtf, it nertr quits him till throwing his whole frame, yitala, body, and limbo, into a stats of suflsriag iaoom- parably more yitdont than the EngUah malady, it destroys liie in a few huan, froqueoUy in a single hoctr or leas If ihtre is any dimaBe known in England, whkh is in point of suffer, ing eomparaUe to the former, it is the fimu already asentimi. ed. But the most important difiormso, politiraily roosiden<d. is that the Indian ctudera has now, after long diacnasinn and •sMitrororsy, bsen admitted to be eammmmtMe, whemas the English has avrer hem suspected of this. And as there la no way more aiaipie and roariarlng to emsbtlsh the conimanicaMe nature of the disrami now in question, than a short narrative of iu origin and progress from the nu>uih of the Ganges to the shores of the Baltic and the hanks of the Elbe, ia Interesting though melaaHloh’ bis- lory may here be related. Its origin can be disUnctly traced to a place called Jesaere, B