Zymotic diseases : their correlation and causation / By A. Wolff.

  • Wolff, Abraham, 1819-1892.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Zymotic diseases : their correlation and causation / By A. Wolff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    witnessed. “ When the cholera reached Muscat, in some instances only ten minutes elapsed from the first seizure before life was extinct. In one case a merchant on board the Conde de Rio Pardo was in the act of closing a bargain, when he suddenly vomited twice, fell down, and expired. Many natives at Hoobly were attacked while walking in the open air, and having retched, complained of vertigo, blindness, or deafness, fell down and expired in a few minutes. Mr. Gordon gives the case of a tailor at Bellary, who expired with his work in his hand. At Punderpore, also, the disease is said to have raged with such severity that 350 persons died in the streets as if knocked down dead by lightning. Dr. R. Williams, Dr. Guy. Dr. Hodges, on Plague of 1665, writes that “some of the infected ran about, staggering like drunken men, and fell down dead in the streets, or they lay there comatose and half dead; some lay vomiting as if they had drunk poison, and others fell dead in the market in the act of buying provisions.” M. Bacot, on Typhus in Army of Peninsula, 1812, says that “ the patients usually came into the hospital complaining of chilliness, languor, and depression, both of strength and spirits. Their countenance was wan and melancholy, and the surface of the body unusually cold to the touch; giddiness of the head was a frequent complaint, and deep and constant sighing was an universal symptom.