Letters on the cholera / by Whitelaw Ainslie.

  • Whitelaw Ainslie
Date:
1832
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    been found capable of inducing the disease in ques- tion, so do we also find that powerful moral impres- sions have sometimes a similar effect.—On a vu, says Adelon, le Cholera Morbus suite d'un acces de colore, d'une tefreur subite ; et Mahon nous assure, que les emotions vives peuvent, chez les nourrices alterer le lait, de manier a ce que I'enfant soit aussitot frappe du Cholera Morbus.* With regard to that much disputed point, as to whether the malady is contagious or not, the public have before them so many assertions, doubts, contradictions, and misgivings, that it would now be almost presumption in any man to attempt to give an opinion. For instance, Mr. Kennedy, in his well written and comprehensive work, treats the disorder under the name of Contagious Cholera. Mr. H. Bell, on the other hand, has observed, Having, after much experience of the disease, arrived at the conclusion, that the Cholera asphyxia is NOT contagious. Then, again, although many of the medical men of Germany have come to a conviction that Cholera, with them, has not been contagious, (they in no instance having been able to trace it from one individual to another,) yet we learn, by a demi-official communication, in the Medical Gazette^ as quoted by Dr. J. Johnson, in a letter addressed to the editor of the Times, of date October 17th, 1831, That Doctors Barry and Russell had declared that this epidemic is commu- • See Dictionnaire de Medicine, tome v. p. 183.