Letters on the cholera morbus; containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact / By a professional man of thirty years' experience, in various parts of the world [i.e. J. Gillkrest].

Gillkrest, J. (James), -1853

Date:: 1831

Credit: Letters on the cholera morbus; containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact / By a professional man of thirty years' experience, in various parts of the world [i.e. J. Gillkrest]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$attendants; all of whom likewise escaped the disease. This man I lepeat, was the only one attacked, and then under the following- circum- o L d 110 S • Here Mr. S. relates how this man, having been intoxicated for several days-was, as a punishment locked up almost naked in a damp room for two nights, having previously been severely beaten. ,J?m ,the ,bregoi«g facts and others pretty similar in all parts of the *hl3]] dlseas<; Vs ,Fevailed’ we ”6. I think, fairly called upon to discard all speeial pleading, and to admit that man’s best endea¬ vours have not been able to make it communicable by any manner of G Bill S • LETTER X. At a meeting held some days ago by the members of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris, Dr. Londe (President of the French Medical Commission sent to Poland to investigate the nature of the Tt, SUlfel’ r' res’arl; t0 the 'j'-“-Stions of the origin and commu¬ nicability ot the disease, that it appeared by a document to which he inferred, that 1st. “ The cholera did not exist in the Russian corps which fought at /game,” the place where the first battle with the Poles took place. ~d “That the two thousand Russian prisoners taken on that occasion and observed at Praga for ten days under the most perfect leTa” 3d’ “TW 1? 7tfomplet] did not give a single case of cho- e a. 3d. That the coips [of the Polish army] which was not at Iqanie had “ore cas<(s cnolera than those which were there.’’ Dr. Londe’ stated cases of the spontaneous development of the disease in different individuals of a French Lady confined to her bed, during two months previous to her attack of cholera, of which she died in twenty-two hours -of a woman of a religious order, who had been confied to her bed for mx months, and while crossing a balcony, the aspect of which was to the \ istula, was attacked with cholera, and died within four hours. Dr. onde, among other proofs that the disease was not transmissible, or as some prefer callmg it, not communicable, stated, “the immunity of wounded and others mixed with the cholera patients in the hospitals • the immunity of medical men, of attendants, of inspectors, and of the fami! hes of the different employes attached to the service of cholera patients • the example of a porter, who died of the disease, without his wife or children, who slept m the same bed with him, having been attacked; the example ofThree women attacked (two of whom died, and one recovered) and the children at their breasts, one of six months, and the other two of twelve, not contracting the disease/’ At a subsequent meeting of the Academy, a letter from Dr. Gaymard one of the Commission to St. Petersburg, was read, in whichit was stated while referring to the comparative mortality at different points here, that. The cause of this enormous difference was, that the author- ties wished to isolate the sick-[Observe this well readerl-and even send them out of the city ; now the hospital is on a steep mountain, and, to$

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