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Hyperanthraxis; or the cholera of Sunderland / [William Reid Clanny].

  • William Reid Clanny
Date:
1832
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Credit: Hyperanthraxis; or the cholera of Sunderland / [William Reid Clanny]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    formance of funeral service; and carriage by ropes from the hand, or by suitable convey- ances, were strenuously recommended, and ] hope, as often as could be, were put into practice. In these arrangements the Board of Health shewed much anxiety. Many medical men of Sunderland are impressed that our first attack of epidemic cholera was directly owing to atmospheric distemperature; but how or when that state of atmosphere com- menced, no man can say. It appeared to me that we all felt this atmospherical influence one way or other. In the month of August last I experienced a severe attack of diarrhoea, which continued nearly a fortnight; I did not check it, but watched its progress attentively, considering that it might be serviceable to me, particularly as I have generally too much blood circulating in the head. During the prevalence of the epidemic in the month of November, I had two attacks of cramps and spasms; first in the inferior ex- tremities, and some time afterwards in the abdomen, from which I can form a pretty accurate notion of what persons afflicted with H
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