Report on epidemic cholera in the Army of the United States, during the year 1866U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 - 166 páginas |
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... July 20th , I was called in the night to see the wife of a soldier - a laundress - who was suffering from vomiting , cramps , and frequent painless rice - water evacuations , accompanied by 20 EXTRACTS FROM OFFICIAL REPORTS .
... July 20th , I was called in the night to see the wife of a soldier - a laundress - who was suffering from vomiting , cramps , and frequent painless rice - water evacuations , accompanied by 20 EXTRACTS FROM OFFICIAL REPORTS .
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... frequent and copious , accompanied by prostration ; skin was cold ; lips blue ; discoloration and rings beneath the eyes . This case , as well as the laundress above described , recovered without any untoward event , although it might ...
... frequent and copious , accompanied by prostration ; skin was cold ; lips blue ; discoloration and rings beneath the eyes . This case , as well as the laundress above described , recovered without any untoward event , although it might ...
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... frequent - rice - water , or watery with flocculent masses floating in the liquid ; eyes sunken ; conjunctiva dry ... frequently called attention to the crowded condition of this guard - house , suggesting means of ventila- tion , and ...
... frequent - rice - water , or watery with flocculent masses floating in the liquid ; eyes sunken ; conjunctiva dry ... frequently called attention to the crowded condition of this guard - house , suggesting means of ventila- tion , and ...
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... frequent airing of the bedding of the men ; the proper cooking of the food , and the inter- diction of all fruits and vegetables ; the use of river water purified with alum ; the disinfection of the clothing and discharges of all ...
... frequent airing of the bedding of the men ; the proper cooking of the food , and the inter- diction of all fruits and vegetables ; the use of river water purified with alum ; the disinfection of the clothing and discharges of all ...
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... frequent and profuse rice- water evacuations , cramps principally in the extremities , and more especially in the legs , more or less complete colapse , mental clearness and unconcern , and , in nearly all the cases , vomiting . In ...
... frequent and profuse rice- water evacuations , cramps principally in the extremities , and more especially in the legs , more or less complete colapse , mental clearness and unconcern , and , in nearly all the cases , vomiting . In ...
Términos y frases comunes
38th Infantry Acting Assistant Surgeon Acute diarrhoea Acute dysentery appearance arrived attacked August black vomit Brevet Brevet Brigadier Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Brevet Major Brownsville calomel camp Cholera morbus citizens colored troops command Company H convalescence cramps DECEMBER detachment diarrhoea died disease disinfected doses duty dysentery epidemic Extract from Monthly Fair fatal Fifth Military District Fort Harker Fort Riley Fort Wallace Fort Zarah Galveston grains Harker Havana honor Indianola infected Intermittent fever J. K. BARNES Jackson Barracks Jefferson Barracks July June Kansas Major General J. K. Mean strength Medical Director medical officer miles month November obedient servant occurred October Orleans patient post hospital prevailed quarantine quinine Rain recovered recruits Remittent fever Report of Sick respectfully Rio Grande City river schooner September Sick and Wounded soldiers station symptoms taken sick Texas Total treatment U. S. A. Brevet U. S. Cavalry U. S. Infantry vicinity vomiting yellow fever
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Página v - Report on Epidemic Cholera and Yellow Fever in the Army of the United States during the Year 1867.
Página xviii - the more thoroughly the facts connected with the spread of yellow fever in the army during 1867 are known, the more strongly they appear to favour the theory of the exotic origin of the disease in the United States.
Página vi - In a general way, it may here be said that the experience of the army during 1867 confirms the views in favor of quarantine formed during 1866, and especially confirms the opinion with regard to the danger of distributing recruits or other bodies of troops from an infected point to other garrisons.
Página vii - Gibson and Arbuckle, one in the case of the posts in New York Harbor, the third in that of certain recruits distributed from New...
Página vi - It will be seen, by consulting that document, that cholera spread over the whole country during 1866, extending as far westward as Forts Leavenworth, Riley and Gibson ; and in the southwest as far as Texas. In its progress, the disease followed the lines of travel rather than any general westward course, and, in the case of the army, it especially followed the movements of bodies of recruits, which were the most important movements from infected points during the year. The compiler of Circular No....
Página xxxvi - ... to recommend the immediate removal of the command to some healthy rural site. On this subject the reports here discussed are explicit. At the only places at which any large number of cases occurred during 1867 — at Galveston, at Houston, at Hempstead, at New Orleans, at Fort Jefferson — the troops faced the pestilence, and at each the greater portion of those exposed were attacked. On the other hand, the troops moved on the approach of the disease to camp in the country, escaped almost wholly...
Página xxxvi - ... experience of the army throws no more satisfactory light on the treatment of the disease, but it must be admitted that it is most instructive with regard to measures of prevention. Besides those general hygienic precautions' which are so important in the prevention or mitigation of all epidemic diseases, two simple and effective measures would appear to be specially indicated by the experience of the army during the war and subsequently. The first is quarantine, as a means of preventing the introduction...
Página 29 - SIR: I have the honor to inform you that, on the morning of the 8th instant, two British vessels, which I was informed were His Britannic Majesty's brig Detroit, late the United States...
Página xxxvi - STewbern epidemic afforded a similar experience. After the disease had fairly broken out among the troops, the greater part of them were moved away from the town, and nearly all thus moved escaped.
Página xi - Denver, as far west as Fort Wallace. The posts on this route are Fort Hays, Downer's Station, Monument Station, and Fort Wallace. The first case at Fort Hays was a citizen, who had just arrived from Salina, whither the cholera had extended from Fort Harker. On the same day, July llth, a colored soldier of the garrison was taken sick, and died next day.