The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon].
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- 1832
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Credit: The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Every day we hear tlie remark, that the win- ter will put a stop to the eholera —tliat tlie eoid weadier will soon make us liear no more of it. 'i'liose wlu) make such remarks do in)i seem to remember that it prevailed all the last winter in Russia, a miieh colder comitry than ours. Still, it is to be acknowledf^ed that as the cholera has sulvanced northwards, it has seeiried to travel more slowly. Whether this dejjends u])on mere climate, or upon tlie habits ol' the northern peo- ple less disp()sin<i; them to receive the disease is not yet determined. From all ihis, we only gather this ])iece of knowledge, that we have no reason in the world to expect that the cholera will /lol come among us, in whatever part of England, Ireland, or Scotland, we may happen to live or to be :—it is very well for us that it does travel more slowly here than in Bengal, for it gives us more time to prepare tor it. In making that preparation, nothing is so important as to keep in mind that wherever the disease has shown itself, it lias been proved that some persons are more liable to its attacks, more predisjyosed to it, than others. It becomes a consideration which very much concerns us all—ivliat are the circumstances which do so ]}n dispose to it. When once we know what they are, we may try to avoid them. One predisposing circumstance has been ob- served in every climate—all irregularity of li\ ing, and especially all intemperance in drinking. It may easily be understood how the nervous sys- tem and also the heart and arteries become](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298129_0168.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
