On the infectious origin and propagation of cholera / by Alexander Bryson.

Date:
1851
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Credit: On the infectious origin and propagation of cholera / by Alexander Bryson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    believe it is essentially endernial, but aggravated in certain places from local causes, such as bad sewerage. (a) That cholera is epidemic, there can be no doubt, and that the general prevalence of the disease is much increased and aggravated by local causes there can be as little Mow that the epidemic has disappeared, I feel more and more satisfied that my first impression was the correct one Cholera is not contagious, but depends on some peculiar atmospheric condition not yet ascertained. (b) Of the existence of an atmospheric poison as the exciting cause and of its maintenance and aggravation under the mdiv.dual or collective influences which are admitted to have a tendency to vitiate the atmosphere, such as efiluvia gases, vapours, or exhalations from stagnant deposits, con^ Lubt'of ^''^''^''^^-'^'^^^^^ ashado;ofa doubt ' -t'^gious character, I have as little The greatest liability to cholera, and its greatest mor- tality, were coincident with a stagnation of the lower stratum of atmosphere and a diminished evaporation while the tem- P«-ature was high and the ranges great. My conviction is, tliat cholera under favouring ciixumstances, may be communicated. (d) ^ I have no doubt in my own mind, from what I have pre- iri'vT.Tl' '''' ^ - countij, ,8 a ru y contagions disease, and that atmospheric ^Z^^^:;'' ^ -^-^on-lthoughi^may new. T 'f''' '•^•^ 1^ that is new, generally speaking, the reasoning amounts to this,- an epidemic there must have been an epidemic cause. Whence .that originated, of what it consisted, how it acted, was per c J M T ■ ^''-S'-rgeon, Greenwich Hospital. (U) Dr. Bruce, Deplforcl Dock-yard, (e) Dr. Anderson, Shcerne.. Docli-y,,rd.