Cholera and its treatment / by Leonard Rogers.

  • Rogers, Leonard, 1868-1962.
Date:
1911
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    with India, no less than sixty-six such references being enumerated by Macpherson between 1503 and 1817, ten of these were of epidemic character. Those of the sixteenth century were observed on the west coast, but in the seventeenth century the disease was reported from the east coast of India, the East Indies, and even from China. During the eighteenth century the affection was encountered in the ever-widening areas visited by Europeans. From 1781 to 1783 it assumed an epidemic form over a wide extent of country from Calcutta down the east coast through Gunjam to Madras, inland as far as Hurdwar, as well as in Burma: in fact over nearly all the parts of India of which we had a knowledge at that time. The only other epi- demics in India between 1783 and 1817 were at Travancore in 1792 and the Mahratta country in 1794, after which there was a marked lull in the prevalence of the disease during the succeeding twenty-three years. During the first three centuries after the discovery of India, cholera, according to Macpherson, visited Europe on several occasions. The first of these outbreaks was at Nismes in 1564, while during the seventeenth century cholera was said to be common in Europe as a sporadic disease but it never at all equalled the Indian outbreaks in malignity or extent. This supposed sporadic incidence in Europe is so unlike the behaviour of cholera in the nineteenth century as to throw some doubt on the last statement. It is generally agreed that there