Official reports made to government by Drs. Russell and Barry, on the disease called cholera spasmodica, as observed by them during their mission to Russia in 1831. With an appendix, and other papers extracts of letters, reports, and communications received from the continent, relating to that disease.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Official reports made to government by Drs. Russell and Barry, on the disease called cholera spasmodica, as observed by them during their mission to Russia in 1831. With an appendix, and other papers extracts of letters, reports, and communications received from the continent, relating to that disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    « IV CONTENTS. Extract of a Letter from Alexandria Extract of a Letter from Alexandria ...... 57 Letter from Valeni del Mount - - - - - - - - 69 Extract of a Dispatch from Lord Heytesbury ----- 70 Questions addressed to Dr.Rehmann, by Drs. Russell and Barry - 71 Extract of a Letter from Dr. Barry . 73 Dr. Rehmann's Death. Extract of a Letter from the Chief Secretary at Malta - - - ibid. Report of Drs. Russell and Barry, continued from Letter of 20th Sept. ibid. Cronstadt—American Shipping—Rojestivensky Quarter of St. Petersburg —Sugar Refiners—Rojestivensky Hospital, its Physicians and Attendants attacked by the Disease—Maison de Charity—Lying-in Hospital for Married Females—Pablofsky Institution for Military Orphans—Institu- tion for Civil Orphans, lowest Class—School of Pages—Pablofsky Scheol of Cadets—First Corps of Cadets Wasilyostoff—Establishment for the Deaf and Dumb—Re-appearance of the Cholera in the Foundling Hos- pital—Alexandrofsky—Zarcozelo—Gottooyoff Island—Culinary Salt in Cholera—Stethoscope in Cholera—Calico Printing Manufactory. Recapitulation of Facts collected in St. Petersburg during the late Epi- demic,' illustrative of the Period of Incubation of Cholera - - 89 Facts collected in St. Petersburg during the late Epidemic, illustrative of the Spread of Cholera amongst Persons employed about the Sick of that Disease in Hospitals - -- -- -- 90 Conclusions as to the Origin, Spread, and Period of Incubation of Spasmodic Cholera - - - -91 Facts illustrating the Modes of Treatment of Spasmodic Cholera adopted at St. Petersburg during the late Epidemic in that Capital - - 93 Cases in the Military and Civil Hospitals—Description of a Russian Bath —Treatment by Galvanism and Oxygen Gas—Comparative Methods of Treatment, with their Result in the Hospital of the Semenowsky Guards —Dr. Zdekauer's Practice in the Hospital of the Imperial Court Stables —Bleeding in another Hospital. Post Mortem Appearances - - - - - - - -103 Extract of Letter from Dr. Barry, July 30th, 1831 - - - -107 Disease somewhat mitigated — Weather unchanged — Vomiting and Purging the least important, Symptoms of the present Epidemic—Cause of Danger in the first Stage—this Stage described—inappropriate Desig- nation—Magisterium Bismuthi—Warm or Vapour Baths — Opium- Calomel—Common Salt—Dangerous Fever in the second Stage. Circular of the 14th Nov. from Central Board of Health - - -109 Precautionary Measures. Circular of 13th Dec. 113 Nature and Treatment of Disease. Conclusion - - - - - - - - - 11G APPENDIX. Account of the Sick taken ill with the Epidemic Cholera at Colpina, addressed to General Wilson by Dr. Baumann - - - - 117 Paper from Vice-Consul Booker - ----- 135 Answers to Questions—State of Cholera at Cronstadt—List of Patients in Lighters and Bargers—Dates relative to Quarantine. Cadet School at Cronstadt - - 138 Count Heyden's Note on Quarantine, and first Cases at Cronstadt - 139 Mr. Booker on the Barracks and Suburbs - - - - - 139 Mr. Hall's Translation of Russian Paper relative to Deaths on Right Bank of the Neva—Caravans of Barks 140,1 City Prison by Dr. Busch - - - - - - - -142 Imperial Foundling Hospital at St. Petersburg 143 Dr. Doepp on Cholera in the Foundling Hospital - - - - 144