Observations on contagion / [Whitley Stokes].

  • Whitley Stokes
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on contagion / [Whitley Stokes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impunity, but on repeating the experiment a third time, he took the disease, and died after a short ill¬ ness. There is reason to suppose that this experiment was repeated by at least one person more with the same fatal event. Mr. West, now Surgeon of the 27th Regiment, which is quartered at present in the Royal Barracks, did me the honour to communicate several obser¬ vations which he had made on the Contagion of the Plague, and the treatment of that formidable dis¬ ease. He was ordered to take the charge of a Peste Hospital near Rosetta, in the beginning of May 1801, and shut up with a succession of patients for four months. Pie had with him an Assistant, an Italian medical man, an English soldier who acted as steward, and Arab servants. No one of the party took the disease, although Mr. West opened and dressed the buboes himself, and dressed sores from Anthraxes, so extensive that half a pound of flesh came off sometimes by sloughing, and although the servants washed the sheets, bedding and bandages, rubbed the patients With mercury extensively, sup¬ ported the faint, tied the delirious, buried the dead; in short, they were exposed as extensively as possible to Contagion. The Plague was at that time so severe that, in the Village of Dousough, about twenty-five miles from Rosetta, containing nearly four hundred inhabitants, the fourth part are said to have died in a month, and other villages wrere also severely affected. For the
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