The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French.

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Medical Board of Bombay several cases precisely similar. At Bellary, a native tailor was attacked, as was believed, by this disease (for it was during its prevalence) and instantly expired, as it is said, with his work in his hands, and in the very attitude in which he sat when it came on. Captain Sykes, in a letter published in the work above alluded to, states that when the disease first commenced its ravages at Punderpoor, three hundred and fifty people are described to have died in one day, tumbling over each other lifeless in the public streets. Mr. Coates on the same occasion observes, the number of deaths at Punderpoor in a few days were estimated at three thousand; and the patients are described as having been knocked down dead as if by lightning. Bell also says*, a man in high health and spirits accompanies his companions to bathe; he is seized while in the water with vomiting and purg- ing, or with spasm, is brought immediately to a surgeon, and is found in what I have called the second stage of the disease.