A treatise on the origin, nature, prevention, and treatment of Asiatic cholera / by John C. Peters.
- John Charles Peters
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the origin, nature, prevention, and treatment of Asiatic cholera / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![from the Himalayas, is equally with Conjeiveram and Ramiese- weram, a som*ce of amiual danger. From these centres, cholera almost always accompanies the homeward-bound pilgrims or traders, and the gradual dispersion of the travellers is the im- mediate means of distributing and propagating the disease, if it has seized them. The villages on their route are visited, and as free intercourse with the villagers and frequent access to the crowded and unhealthy bazaars are inevitable and cannot be controlled, great diffusion of cholera results. The public roads and thoroughfares become satm^ated with elements of disease, and dangerous to troops or private travellers who are exposed to their emanations. We have but to recoUect the numberless instances of cholera imported into moving cam]:s or attacking private individuals to recognize the facility with which passers-by are often found to succumb under this con- tagion. Supplies have to be obtained from villages already infected by the pilgrims, and even the slight amount of inter- course thus arising may implicate the safety of a whole com- mand. But, in addition to this explanation of seizures of cholera among soldiers, and independent of the predisposing causes which travelling itself originates, it is no fancied con- clusion to infer that if troops pctss near or even rest for a short time upon tainted camping grounds, they become the victims of disease. Of this latter point a sad proof was given within the limits of the Madras presidency, at least as affecting some of its army, for, on the breaking up of the Sangar divis- ion in 1860, many of the regiments, returning to their own stations, crossed the route of the pilgrims who had gone to and returned from Ramieseweram, and in numerous instances they were attacked with cholera.. This v/as no rare coinci- dence, but occurred with such frequency and precision](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21071950_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
