Practical observations on malignant cholera : as that disease is now exhibiting itself in Scotland / by D. M. Moir.
- David Macbeth Moir
- Date:
- 1832
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Credit: Practical observations on malignant cholera : as that disease is now exhibiting itself in Scotland / by D. M. Moir. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![4^ ON, 1:111;jC9Jf:yA^^Q|«( .p]j'^pHg|.ERA. this individual was concerned, was, by active mea- sures, successfully checked, and Cholera thus, for a while, held in abeyance.*„f Taking another illustration from the first six in the .schedule of. District First,? I find a boy, W. B„f aged seven,v;tQ ^hpm.J,,was, palled at six on * Since the pi^blication of ,tbe first edition of, this pamphlet ten days ago, a sequel to this family category has shown itself in Edin- burgh, in a ca's'^ which keemed ai first to delight the hearts of the anti-contagionists^.Ili>li'tla tPMqmHY.'i io 89ri'^3 y'/ni* (iQf the previous three well liiarked and violent cases of Cholera Asphyxia, Avhich liad occurred in Edinburgh, all had been persons recently returned from Musselburgh, while the disease was raging. This fourth one was a Widow M'Millan, who had not been out of town for montlis before her death. She was seized on the night of January 27th. K'iooTnf to j^^nffn'^ f>'' In a precognition before the Sheriff, the following overwhelming facts.have, however, bpen since elicited. ,It turns p^it that the son, of this woman slept, on the nights of the .18th and 19th of that month, at Musselburgh, in the bouse of Mackay; and it will be seen by reference io the Appendix, that B. M. (see case first.,) died on the afternoon of the latter day. ' This circumstance, however, was mendaciously concealed.,f. rri- m -' - ! ' ■ ri On the 22d he was, after his rctui-n to Edinburgh, seized with diarrhoea and vomiting ; .and was seen by Professor Alison and other medical gentlemen, who, from the nature of his evacuations, imme- diately set down his''case'as one of Cholera. ' It was, however, slight ;^ ■ and! in' ar fewt days he • recovered ;—but not ere a woman i^esiding under the sqnie roof ^vas similarly affected.;, .-'u . r Lastly, on the 27th, his mother, Widow M'Millan, who had nursed her son during his attack, and occasionally slept in the same bed with him, was seized with the malady in a more malignant form, and fell a victim to it.; Facts like these require no commen- tary, ft foinfiiji; li«« 9iliir l iiUR ' f Fjc/e Case thir4 in Appendix.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21483309_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
