Notes on the epidemic cholera / [Richard Hartley Kennedy].

  • Richard Hartley Kennedy
Date:
1827
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Credit: Notes on the epidemic cholera / [Richard Hartley Kennedy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    effect. Mr. Cotgrave, Assistant Surgeon of the battalion, pitched his tent close to the hospital door, and never quitted his place of duty day or night: Dr. Mylne, Superintending Surgeon, gave up every other occupation to labour like a regimen- tal surgeon ; and as this was the corps in which I had myself served as Assistant Surgeon for five years, and almost every individual in it, more or less knew me, and was known by me, I had a more than common interest in rendering every as- sistance in my power. • In the mean while the weather, as is usual in the first weeks of December, was delightfully pleasant; 1 would say remarkably so, being rather cooler than generally prevails until January. There was really nothing to which, by ever so far-fetch- ed a reasoning, we could ascribe the situation of these poor people. The rest of the cantonment enjoyed perfect health, though breathing the same atmosphere, drinking water from the same wells, and procuring provisions from the same ba- zar; whilst the most unrestrained intercourse ex- isted betwixt the infected battalion, and the other two healthy battalions of the station. The city of Baroda and its suburbs were reported to be unaf- fected, nor have I ever learnt that the disease then existed in any of the adjacent villages; and yet this solitary, insulated body of hardy soldiery, in all the vigour of manhood, and exciting prepara- tion for field service, encamped upon a dry and e 2
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