Cholera : what is it? and how to prevent it / By Edwin Lankester.

  • Lankester, Edwin, 1814-1874.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Cholera : what is it? and how to prevent it / By Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the fourth time, by reports of its appearance in Egypt, more especially along the march of the army of pilgrims from Mecca. The disease was clearly not generated at Mecca, but brought there by Mohammedan pilgrims from the East.* From Mecca it was brought by the returning pilgrims to Alexandria, and thence along the ports of the Mediterranean to Southern Europe. The localities of the first attacks in England were] somewhat different. In previous attacks it had first appeared in the north. This time we heard of it first in the south. It first appeared at Southampton on the 10th of July, and subsequently was reported at Wey- mouth, Portland, and Doi'chester. One of the most singular episodes in the history of the arrival of cholera in England in 1865, was its appearance in a small village named Theyden- Bois, near Epping. Here lived a farmer who, with his wife, weut to spend a fortnight at Weymouth in September last. On returning home he was seized with diarrhcEa. He, how- ever, arrived at home on the 26th of September. His wife, after getting home, Avas attacked with the same complaint, and died on the 11th of October, with all the symptoms of cholera. * Cholera Prospects. By Tilbury Pox, M.D. London: Hardwicke.