Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many weeks, and no one in the house had either diarrhoea or cholera; nor had any one, to their knowledge, the disease in the neighbourhood—nor has any one had diarrhoea or cholera in the house since—nor have my two informants suffered in any way, although they washed and handled the child before and after death. Case No. 3. Juhj 1855.—At No. 23, New North Street, on the 2()th July, 1855, a woman, aged 21, is re- ported, in the Registrar General's Weekly Return of Births and Deaths of the 28th July, 1855, of choleraic diarrhoea (eight days), typhus. I have seen the persons where the woman lodged, and the woman who attended her during her ill- ness ; and they inform me that she had been to the country for a change of air, and had been away about a month. She returned apparently well; when about eight days before her death she com- plained of diarrhoea—but still she was not suffer- ing pain or uneasiness—when, on the fifth day, she suddenly began to vomit freely; then she com- plained of pains in all her limbs, and had severe and frequent purging. These symptoms continued for about a day, when she became easy and gradually sunk. She was a very quiet, retiring person; did not visit any one from the moment of her return from the country, nor did any one come to see her; no diarrhoea or cholera was in the neighbourhood; and although every one in the house was during her illness in her room frequently, doing all they