On the origin, habits and diffusion of cholera, and what may be done to prevent or arrest its progress, and to mitigate its ravages / [by J. Fayrer].

  • Joseph Fayrer
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[1886]
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Credit: On the origin, habits and diffusion of cholera, and what may be done to prevent or arrest its progress, and to mitigate its ravages / [by J. Fayrer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 1 Z 12 the South and East of Germany, in Norway, Denmark, and Ireland. In America, cholera appeared in New York and New Orleans at the same time (1848), and over-ran all the states to the east of the Rocky Mountains, and attacked San Francisco, Mexico (1849), California, Panama and New Granada. In Africa, cholera was in Egypt and countries of the Northern coast. There was a general lull from 1850-2, isolated cases only being reported in the north and north east of Europe. During the second period, of places in Asia, India suffered severely in 1852-58-60-61 ; there were epidemics also in China, Japan, the East Indian Islands, Persia, Afghanistan and Turkestan. In Europe, the disease appeared again in East Russia, Prussia and Poland. The whole of Europe suffered, the Northern and Central countries being the first attacked ; the epidemic had died out by 1856, but re-appeared in Hamburg and on the shores of the Gulf of Finland in 1859, and a few cases occurred in England during the same year.* In America, the area of epidemic prevalence was almost co-extensive with the northern continent. The disease appeared in South America, attacking Brazil for the first time (1855), and Venezuela ; it broke out also in Central America. In Africa, cholera attacked Algiers and Morocco (1853), Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, West coast of Madagascar (for the first time), Cape Verde Islands, Madeira, Mauritius and Reunion.! The fourth pandemic (1865-76), can—like the preceding one—be divided into two periods, e.g., 1865-69 and 1871-75. In Asia, during 1863-64 cholera was widely diffused over India, Ceylon, the East Indian Islands, China, Japan, West and South coasts of Arabia (1865), Persia, Mesopotamia and Syria. In Europe, the epidemic appeared in the summer months of 1865 in Malta, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Russia. In the latter country cholera was heard of every year till 1874. It subsequently invaded every nation in * Cuningham. Cholera—What can the State do to prevent it ?
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