Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The first edition of this work, which was published in August 1849, was only a slender pamphlet. I have, since that time, written various papers on the same subject, which have been read at the Medical Societies, and published in the medical journals. The present edition conta...
The first edition of this work, which was published in August 1849, was only a slender pamphlet. I have, since that time, written various papers on the same subject, which have...
2. Part 2Besides the facts above mentioned, which prove that cholera is communicated from person to person, there are others which show, first, that being present in the same room with a...
3. Part 3It is not unlikely that some of the cases of cholera which spring up without any apparent connection with previous cases, may be communicated through articles of diet. It is the...
4. Part 4The first case of cholera in Newburn was that of a young man living close to the brook, about a hundred yards above the place at which it passes the well. He was taken ill on th...
5. Part 5In some of the instances, where the deaths are scattered a little further from the rest on the map, the malady was probably contracted at a nearer point to the pump. A cabinet-m...
6. Part 6┌────────────────────┬───────────┬────────┬───────────┬──────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Deaths │Deaths from│ │ │ Districts. │Population.│ from │Cholera in │ Water Supply. │ │ │ │Ch...
7. Part 7London was without cholera from the latter part of 1849 to August 1853. During this interval an important change had taken place in the water supply of several of the south dist...
8. Part 8As soon as I had ascertained these particulars I communicated them to Dr. Farr, who was much struck with the result, and at his suggestion the Registrars of all the south distri...
9. Part 9┌──────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Sub-Districts.│ Water Supply. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├──────────────┼────────...
10. Part 10The districts supplied by the Chelsea Company have suffered a much greater mortality, during the recent epidemic, than the average of the whole metropolis, as the subjoined tabl...
11. Part 11In the autumn of 1853, the cholera was prevailing extensively at Hamburgh, and in nearly all the ports of the Baltic, whence a number of ships were arriving every day in the Tyn...
12. Part 12There may be other causes besides the above which tend to assist the propagation of cholera in warm, more than in cold weather. It is not unlikely that insects, especially the c...
13. Part 13“In July 1834, 800 soldiers, all in good health, embarked on the same day in three transports at Bona, in Algeria, and arrived together at Marseilles; they were exposed to the s...
14. Part 14At the Workhouse, on 2nd August, the daughter of a labourer, aged 7 years, “Asiatic cholera (30 hours) after admission in a state of collapse”. From 7, Chapel Place, Long Lane
15. Part 15At Albert Villas, on 27th July, the son of a clerk in the Customs, aged 2 years, “premonitory diarrhœa a month, Asiatic cholera 16 hours, consecutive fever 30 hours, convulsions...
16. Part 16MAGNACOPIA: A Practical Library of Profitable Knowledge, communicating the general Minutiæ of Chemical and Pharmaceutic Routine, together with the generality of Secret Forms of...
17. Part 17“The work affords fruits of the mental energy of an observer who is anything but content to follow the beaten path where more successful roads lie open before him. It is not a w...
18. Part 18THE CLIMATE OF THE SOUTH OF DEVON, AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON HEALTH. With short Accounts of Exeter, Torquay, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Exmouth, Sidmouth, &c. Illustrated with a Map geol...