Notes worth noticing, relative to the cholera, which has, for some years past, occupied the public attention / by Dr. Gillkrest.

  • Gillkrest, J. (James), -1853
Date:
1852
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Credit: Notes worth noticing, relative to the cholera, which has, for some years past, occupied the public attention / by Dr. Gillkrest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    U) miles from Madras, and we had none of it until we had marched seventy miles further (seven stages), when we again found it at one of our appointed places of encam]>- ment; but our camp was, in consequence, pushed on a few miles, and only one case, a fatal one, occurred in the detatchment; the man was attacked on the line of march. We again left the disease, and were free from it during the next 115 miles of travelling; we then had it during three stages, and found many villages deserted. We once more left it, and reached our journey’s end, 260 miles further, without again meeting it. Thus, in a journey of 560 miles, this detatchment was exposed to, and left the disease behind it, four different times; and on none of those occasions did a single case occur beyond the tainted spots.” What a lesson for Dr. ! But for whom could Dr. have written his ‘ curious ’ book 9 Hear Mr. Bell in respect to the common error of the disease following high roads and navigable rivers only:—“I have known the disease to prevail for several weeks at a village in the Southern Mahratta country, within a few miles of the principal station of the district, and then leave that division of the country entirely ; or, perhaps, cases would occur at some distant point. In travelling on circuit with the Judge of that district, I have found the ilisease prevailing destructively in a small and secluded village, while no cases were reported from any other part of the district.” What a pity that, before the mischievous anti-social doctrine of contagion in Cholera was acted on by the ruling authorities in England, statements such as the following,'from the same gentlemen, had not been taken into consideration by those deputed to give their opinion :— “ It has been remarked by many practitioners, that, although they had brought Cholera patients into crowded