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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    place after another till it reached the ])lace of its termination within the specified month, for it can be stated that it rather leaps {‘salta') than, properly, extends. When it mani- fested itself in Haddington, on the 17th December, four- fifths of the places between it and Sunderland djd not suffer from it. Indeed, the greater part of them had never been attacked at all up to the time of his writing. The same occurred in regard to Glasgow:—when it showed itself in the neighbourhood of that city, at about eighty miles from Sunderland, the greater number of the towns and villages situated between the one and the other did not suffer ; and very few had suffered at all up to the time of his writing. In England the Cholera very rarely followed a progressive continuous course; and its propagation was irregular in its mode, and in the rapidity with which it traversed distances, if it is proper so to speak. This leaping of the disease (manifestly a wrong mode of expression, as, if there is any leaping in the case, it must be of the cause of the disease) was, as Dr. Seoane observes, noticed in the Cholera with which Germany was visited in 1831. This, the Doctor thinks, was the cause of the in- efficacy of all sanitary (as he is pleased to call them) cordons; for, while the authorities were surrounding one place with a cordon,—lo ! presto ! it made its appearance at eight, ten, or fifteen miles behind the cordon. Remarkable facts of a similar kind are shown by Dr. Seoane to have occurred throughout England, in the epidemic of 1831-2. The same physician makes some very remarkable observa- tions on the progress of the Cholera at Haddington, and in the neighbouring towns: he states, with respect to the foi - nier place, where the disease, when it first broke out, was limited to about 200 yards square, notwithstanding the freest intercourse with other places, and great commerce, — that all the Cholera cases occurred among the inhabitants of the limited space 'just mentioned, and, though most of