Official reports made to government by Drs. Russell & Barry, on the disease called cholera spasmodica, as observed by them during their mission to Russia in 1831 : with an appendix, and other papers, extracts of letters, reports, and communications received from the continent, relating to that disease.

  • Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Charlton Park
Date:
1832
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Credit: Official reports made to government by Drs. Russell & Barry, on the disease called cholera spasmodica, as observed by them during their mission to Russia in 1831 : with an appendix, and other papers, extracts of letters, reports, and communications received from the continent, relating to that disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    live, nor to any other; which I can with full certainty maintain, bacause I paid particular attention to this object. I adopted no fumigation of my clothes, no ablutions, no sprinkling with scented waters. I never changed my clothes when I came from cholera patients. I had accustomed myself, from the commencement of the epidemic, after every visit to a person severely attacked, to walk about for a time, rather more quickly than usual, in the open air, with my clothes unbuttoned. I think I am indebted to the conscientious pursuit of this principle, for the above-mentioned good result. III.—^That when persons come from distant infected places, they do not so much require a rigid quarantine, but rather a long and close inspection, in order that, on the first appearing of symptoms, they may be closely shut out from intercourse. Predisposition.—My experience goes to prove, that full-blooded, leuco- phlegmatic persons, with debilitated nerves—those subject to frequent dit ficuliies of aigestion, or to other defects of the lower regions of the body, or having a disposition to repletion, are most susceptible of the disease. The predisposition is evidently lessened by strong exercise, particularly in the open air. Children at the breast are incapable of being seized; not one of the seven hundred that were in the house, during the three weeks that it lasted in the same, sickened, although many of their nurses were attacked. (Signed) PHILIPP HOEPP, Court Doctor, Director-in-Chief of the Imperial Foundling Hospital, at St. Petersburg. %
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