Disease / Matt Ridley.

  • Matt Ridley
Date:
1997
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Credit: Disease / Matt Ridley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water they could swallow, have both died of cholera. One '* had drunk nine syphons, and the other eight. (The ordinary seltzer-water is but a carbonated water, or holding carbonate of soda and citric acid in solution). The second case (July 28th) is reported from Paris : A man, having indulged in a bout of eight days' drinking, was attacked with cholerine. (The existence of cholera had not yet been officially recognized). I have already in one of my pamphlets, published in 1871, raised the question, whether or not such distended condition and such destruction of blood corpuscles, would not in itself account for most of the phenomena, accompany- ing or even constituting the disease of cholera or typhoid, and be considered as giving the sufferer a predisposition for an attack.* Itis not improbable that the permanent existence of cholera in India has some connection with the salt-tax, and with a consequent deficient consumption among the natives. § 33 The following communication, the veracity of which I have no reason to doubt, was made to me by a gentleman, a Mr. Wren, who, with his father and brother owned two sheep stations in New South Wales. One of these stations, so he informed me, was situate near * This condition of the blood might be designated as the Y of Professor Von Pettenkofer in his theory of Cholera.
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