Volume 1

The history of the contagious cholera; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure / By James Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, James, 1803-1868
Date:
1831
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Credit: The history of the contagious cholera; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure / By James Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in this volume are taken from the Reports on Cholera, which were compiled in India by order of the East India Company. For the opportunity of laying them before the public, l am indebted to the liberality of the Honourable Court of Directors, which has ever shewn an earnest desire to promote the Interests of science. In making abstracts from a part of these valuable reports, my object was of a general character, namely, to introduce short descriptions of cholera, and a variety of opinions from various au- thors—under the impression that a raore com- prehensive knowledge would be conveyed in this way of the peculiarities of the disease, than could possibly be afforded in the uni- formity which usually pervades the descrip- tion of an individual. In pursuance of this plan it became inconvenient to copy the original reports at full length, for in that case.a few might have occupied the whole of. their allotted space; in some instances, then, they _ a2
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