On the infectious origin and propagation of cholera / by Alexander Bryson.

Date:
1851
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Credit: On the infectious origin and propagation of cholera / by Alexander Bryson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cation with the cholera wards, at all hours of the day and ntX tie disease, in its malignant form, was not commun - ^Ifed to a singl individual. Still, many of the res.den ^XeHrom diarrhea, together with shght spasmodic twitchings of the muscles of the extremties. '^^Cl oler'a broke out in the ship --^.j/^t tblrk proceeding down ^^-^^-Jro^o th'etu^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ was ahout abreast J^^J.f; //^ly. On the same day. diarrhoea, however, two dajs previousjy. „„,i„nthe Ithers^ldier was attacked butnotso sev^^^^^^^^^^^ 27th, the day foll-;7';^i^'jtl'1he vetd being then off Early on the mormng of the -^S - t ^^^^^^^ Plymouth, other two soldiers and three seamen .Jultaneously attacked. Agam, on 29 a'to th ^ of ZZ^X^^^^^- cause-occurred amongst both classes of men ^^^^^^^^^ The seamen were -/^^^';;te7 berthed, and some'of them were ° P^^'^^^^^^^ ^,3, „«de The soldiers, however, --f'J^^^td well supplied US appearance, were m good -^^f^^^'J^ ..p^rintendent, with all the necessaries of life. 1 he surge i the officer of the guard, the master and he ; ^ ^.^^ . pied the cabins under the poop ^ ;:^:;^rsep;rat^ the exception of the surgeon, ^vea P ^^^^ from the men, P'l'^''<=^%^\tl , On the 29th attacks were most frequent, ^^^^^^^^ T^^dly.ventik „f ^une the seamen ^^^t^^C^^^. After this quarters under the toieca ,„„,e ^ases of '::iS;i^'--». ^-h however