On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow.

  • John Snow
Date:
1855
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    Several other instances of the communication of cholera, quite as striking as the above, are related in Dr. Simpson’s work. The following account of the propagation of cholera has been published, along with several other histories of the same kind, in a pamphlet by Dr. Bryson.* “ Mr. Greene, of Fraserburgh, gives the following ac- count of the introduction of cholera into two villages in Scotland. Two boats, one belonging to Cairnbulgh and the other to Inveralochy, met at Montrose, and their crews on several occasions strolled through the town in company, although aware that it was at that time infected with cholera. On their passage homeward, they were obliged to put into Gourdon, where one man belonging to the Cairnbulgh boat died on the 22nd of September, after an illness of fourteen hours, with all the symptoms of cholera. Several of the men of both boats were at the same time attacked with serous diarrhoea, of which three of them had not recovered when they reached their re- spective homes; nor indeed until the first cases of the epidemic broke out in the villages. In Inveralochy the first case appeared on the 28th of September, three or four days after the arrival of the boat; the sufferer, the father of one of the crew, had been engaged in removing the cargo along with othei* members of his family. Two other cases occurred in this family; one on the 30th of September, and one on the 1st of October. “ In Cairnbulgh, the first cases appeared on the 29th and 30th of September respectively, and both patients had also been engaged in removing the cargo of the boat (shell-fish) belonging to that village. No other cases appeared until the 3rd of October; so that from the 28th * On tlie Infectious Origin and Propagation of Cholera.