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? - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... severe purging, and that she became insensible and died three days after. The house which she inhabited is in a low neighbourhood, and is very dirty. But no one was attacked with cholera in the house previous to her being attacked, although several had diarrhoea, nor has any one since. That six days before her death, a man at No. 13 in the same street had died of cholera; but as she herself was then ill with diarrhoea, she had not left her room to see him, nor had she any communication with him or with any one that had seen him. CASES OF CHOLERA. Case No. 65.. In the R. G. W. R., of Saturday, May 19th, 1855, a case of cholera is reported to have occurred on the 15th May, 1855, at Whitechapel North, Crown Court, No. 12, in a child of one year old, cholera, fifty-four hours. I have seen the mother and father of this child, and they tell me that the child was still at the breast; that he had taken no food that could hurt him; that he seemed in perfect health, when, about twelve or one, after dinner hour, he was taken with a bowel complaint, then sickness at stomach; that these went on the remainder of the day, and at about ten o'clock at night he was attacked with spasms, and died fiftyfour hours after he was first attacked. The child had not been out of the court, nor had he had any communication with any one having a diarrhoea or an attack of cholera; that the whole of the inhabitants of the court are free from diarrhoea or cholera; that his brothers and sisters, seven in all, were, and are, in perfect health and free from diarrhoea; that the child had always enjoyed perfect health; that neither the father nor mother had had communication with any one suffering from diarrhoea or from cholera. This, to me, is a true case of spontaneous cholera. I shall return...

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