Observations on the pestilential cholera, (asphyxia pestilenta), as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831 : and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth.

  • Ainsworth, William, 1807-1896.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the pestilential cholera, (asphyxia pestilenta), as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831 : and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    it marked its progress so distinctly, that the line of its course has been traced upon a map, as if the personification of a pestilence had been travelling over the different countries of Europe and Asia, leaving the mark of his finger behind him. It is quite another consideration, whether atmospherical vicissitudes, or disad- vantages of geographical or local position, exer- cise any influence upon the spreading of the malady after it has once established itself in a place. I shall advert to this afterwards ; it is sufficient, for the present, that a brief but com- prehensive sketch of the circumstances under which the malady propagated itself, wholly inde- pendent of its habits as a disease, point out the fact, that the Asphyxia pestilenta is essentially an infectious pestilence, whose propagation de- pended, in the first place, on the importation of a quality capable of generating a new dis- ease, to which all nations seem liable, and which, from the short time the virus exists in the human body, is generally slow in spreading from one place to another. These circumstances, contained in the his-