An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin].

  • Goodwin, R.
Date:
[1832]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    72/104 (page 62)
    nearly 2000. In Cork, including Cove and Clon- akilty, about 1000. Among the recent victims to Cholera in Belfast, we, have to mention, Doctor Buchanan, physician to the Cholera Hospital of the Ballymacarrett district. His death took place on the I]th of July, and has excited much sorrow, and occasi- oned considerable alarm. During the day, on Tuesday, he felt slightly unwell, but no decided symptoms of cholera were manifested until about nine o’clock in the evening. The disease ran through its various stages with a rapidity and viru- lence that baffled every effort to control it; and, at a few minutes before eight o’clock on the following morning, the sufferer expired. In Liverpool, the Cholera is extending its ra- vages daily, lately the ship Brutus commanded by Capt. Neilson, sailed from thence, and had 330 pas- sengers on board. ‘The services of a clergyman and surgeon were engaged, and every thing-pro- mised a favourable and pleasant voyage. No symp- toms of illness were evinced till Monday, the 28th of May, when a man was seized with illness, and the principal symptoms of malignant cholera soon manifested themselves. ‘This man, by the appli- cation of prompt remedies, soon recovered; but the next case, that of a woman, proved fatal. A child only a few days old, soon followed; and on the