History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe / Illustrated by numerous official and other documents, explanatory of the nature, treatment, and prevention of the malady.
- Francis Bisset Hawkins
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe / Illustrated by numerous official and other documents, explanatory of the nature, treatment, and prevention of the malady. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![No. XIV. Quarantine in Prussia. [The following are the regulations adopted by the Prussian Go- vernment for preventing the spreading of the cholera.—Berlin, June 16.] Upon the first news of the breaking out of the cho- lera morbus in Poland, a sanatory cordon has been esta- blished on the Prussian frontier, from the Baltic, near Memel, to the southern point of Silesia, near Cracow. Since then, the entrance, both of travellers and mer- chandise, from Russia, Poland, and Cracow, has been allowed only at certain quarantine stations, and on pro- duction of unquestionable bills of health. All persons not provided with clean bills of health, as well as goods liable to imbibe infection—viz., bed-fea- thers, quills, horse or cow-hair, flax, hemp, raw hides, skins, leather, furs, sail cloth, rope, tow, wool, apparel, &c, have been subjected to ten or twelve days of the strictest quarantine and purification. On the cholera manifesting itself in Austrian Gallicia, the Prussian frontier cordon was immediately extended opposite to that Austrian province, from Cracow to the frontiers of Bohemia, which latter frontier itself is placed under observation, in such manner that travellers or merchandise, which cannot be proved to come from a place perfectly free from suspicion, are either refused admittance or made to perform quarantine. Thus, the whole of the eastern provinces of Prussia s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21020942_0269.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
