The cholera epidemic of 1873 in the United States.

  • Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913.
Date:
1875
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Credit: The cholera epidemic of 1873 in the United States. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exclu^on of the disease from this country : «ro aZrm<ty in/ected mt^<j>^°' „ois(W, a cerfaiu period o/i^&a- III. To set up moSLlisTe^mred, which period is com'- Hon with the presence of ^^^^^ %VOring decomposition and St^SiS UJ. m JoMss, the r, able coniUions, about three ^I JZ Zi TtU period of incubation, presence of bacteria, which «WZiod ofZrbL activity. That u to say, and disappear at the ^fjl^2n„ such, is harmless both beforethe ap- bacieria, actively p^ Poison-+ x- ^ *7,* <n™«mj ??iaw oe preserved in posse for YL Themoroific^ iod 0f incuoa- an indefinite period in ^^Yurim tfce period 0/ aciitnty. tfam, or 0/ infection-matter *^*£^f „ 6 carried *• VII. T/te dried particles of c^ZtfinliLratedmay find their way direct to the alimentary canal ^^wTwlth the saUva-or, less directly, month and nose a^J^rTfZin which they have lodged, through the medium of water wjoouin process of growth, Till. Thepoison */-<gfg^^L^^^ soil; (2) acid- or ly contact with aads :■ (1) ^os* cont ^ ^ gasesinfe^ ^^^of^o^ oXmuch of the curreat speculation and theory concerning.cholera^ It bo ^ XKure geueratiou/will be quite rnT^laud yet it is uot hazarding much to say that fata^ opagation. Just d6° ^ulls of the delay in recognizing the*Xntic virus is necessary to produce B^r«^onU<XSot outside of Hiudostadu.fiioi) under fftVOr_ cnoiera iu i 1 „ tue disease does uui i« j p. 374.)