The history of the contagious cholera ; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure. / By James Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, James, 1803-1868
Date:
1831
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Credit: The history of the contagious cholera ; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure. / By James Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ment report, amounted to five thousand. Had the pestilence continued to spread and destroy after such a frightful manner, the camp would soon have been depopulated. But the Presiding Intelligence, who permits the growth of physi- cal evil, to serve, doubtless, as an agent in the production of ultimate good, has also deter- mined the limits of its increase. The cholera, which raged to an unparalleled extent on the 20th of November, was deprived, at the end of the three following days, of its infecting power. Few new cases occurred after the 23d, and those that did occur were of a mild and tractable na- ture. The camp was cumbered, however, with a multitude of sick ; and the Marquis of Hastings, to facilitate their recovery, resolved on changing the site of his encampment. Accordingly, the division, with as little delay as possible, com- menced its march in a south-easterly direction, and, after several intermediate Tialts, took up its position near the Betwah river, a distance of fifty miles from the Sinde. It is impossible to calculate the change which the political fortunes of India might have under- gone had the Pindarries taken advantage of the grand army while it was labouring under the pes- tilential scourge. The enemy numbered upwards
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