Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cureWhitney, Elijah
History
Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure
Whitney, Elijah
Cholera
It made its first appearance in Scotland, at Haddington, in December,
1831, and at Edinburgh in January. In these and various other places it
prevailed for some months, and, as warm weather came on, increased in
severity, and carried off a large percentage of those attacked. After
spreading thus over the northern section, and rioting for months in the
more populous cities and towns, it made its appearance in London on
the 14th February, 1832, where it found an abundance of material for
recuperating its strength and multiplying its forces, and soon after
spread over various other places in the United Kingdom, inflicting
the most appalling bills of mortality. In short, its progress over
this country has been attended with the same destructive influence
and the same lamentable consequences as on the continent. No change,
modification, or softening of its disposition or character has arisen
from its passage over the Northern Sea, nor from the refreshing
influences of a purer atmosphere.
It appeared in Calais on the 12th, and at Paris on the 26th of March,
1832, where it continued in these and other cities and villages for
some months with its accustomed severity. During the season it raged
throughout the vast empire, and swept away an immense number of its
inhabitants. During the succeeding years, 1833 and 1834, it traversed
Spain, and proved very destructive in many of its larger cities and
villages.
In the mean time, continuing its course from the British Isles
westward, unchecked by the prevailing western winds and the broad
expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, over which it passes a distance of
nearly three thousand miles, and makes its first appearance on the
American continent at Quebec, Lower Canada, on the 8th June, 1832, and
reaches Montreal on the 10th of the same month. From these cities it
rapidly spread in all directions, prevailing in the towns and villages
on the St. Lawrence and its tributaries, and soon extended along the
chain of lakes, dividing the Provinces from the United States, visiting
the principal ports on either shore. It exhibited in all these places
its peculiar epidemic character, and proved excessively violent and
fatal wherever it appeared.
Its first irruption in New York was on the 24th June, 1832, sixteen
days after its appearance at Quebec, and at Albany, midway between
the two former cities, on the 3d July. From New York it extended its
influence to Flatbush and Gravesend, Long Island, where it appeared on
the 5th July, and on the same day and date at the city of Philadelphia.
It broke out at Rochester on the 12th and at Buffalo--July.
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