Malignant cholera : its mode of propagation, and its prevention / By William Budd.

  • William Budd
Date:
1849
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Credit: Malignant cholera : its mode of propagation, and its prevention / By William Budd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 and lastly, in drinking-water from the Stapleton work- house ;—being all places where, at the time the water was obtained, cholera was making dreadful havoc. This led me to examine a great number of specimens of water from healthy quarters; and although I often found in it a good deal of matter of various kinds, organic and other, in no single instance did I see anything re- sembling the peculiar bodies in question. These considerations, and others, that will appear in the sequel, have led me to the conclusions embodied in the following propositions :— 1. The cause of Malignant Cholera is a living organism of distinct species. •2. This organism—in shapes hereafter to be described, —is taken by the act of swallowing into the intes- tinal canal, and there becomes infinitely multiplied by the self-propagation, which is characteristic of living beings. 3. The presence and propagation of these organisms in I the intestinal canal, and the action they there exert, are the cause of the peculiar flux which is characteristic of malignant cholera; and which, taken with its consequences, immediate and re- mote, constitutes the disease. 4. The new organisms are developed only in the human intestine. 6. These organisms are disseminated through society, (1.) in the aii-, in the form of impalpable particles ; (2.) in contact with articles of food; and (.3.) and principally, in the drinking-water of infected places. The evidence on which the first proposition is founded is a matter of direct observation, and is derived from mi- croscopic examination of the characteristic rice-water discharges of persons affected with cholera.
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