The evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : the Privy Council, and College of Physicians, the means of prevention and method of cure of the cholera morbus, and the atrocities of the cholera panic / by Captain White.
- White, William
- Date:
- 1837
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : the Privy Council, and College of Physicians, the means of prevention and method of cure of the cholera morbus, and the atrocities of the cholera panic / by Captain White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in a little water, was to be given every three hours. The doctor stated to the parents the hour the child would die. After the first tea spoonful was given the child continued to get worse, and its stomach swelled enormously. The father was about to give it the second dose, and had put it into a teacup, when, as he sat by the fire stirring it up, he perceived that it got thicker, that it changed into a variety of co- lours, like paint, and he could hardly stir it. Seeing this he became alarmed, threw it under the grate, and determined to give the babe no more. At the hour named by the doctor that the child would die, the child to all appearance was dead. The parents then wrapped the child up in its cloths, locked the room door, and left it. The father proceeded to the undertaker's for a coffin, and to have the child buried. Being late at night, and the undertakers very busy, the funeral was delayed until the morning. About two o'clock in the morning, while the parents were sitting in an adjoining room bemoaning the loss of their child, they were astonished by hearing the child crying. Upon unlocking the door, they were still more so to find the child sitting up in its bed crying for food. Had the child at an earlier hour been sup- posed to be dead, or had it happened in the day- time, there is no doubt but that this child would have been buried alive. I have seen this child; and the fact was stated to me by the father. [There can be no doubt but what the medicine so given was a solution of arsenic.] “ Medicines were sent to B D , who, after the first dose, would take no more ; he is now alive, but the cat to whom some of it was given, mixed with food, died. BURYING ALIVE. “ G. B , undertaker at , is prepared to prove, upon oath, that he was often compelled, by the public authorities, to put people into their coffins](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22366817_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
