The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1875 - 1053 páginas The story of Gideon Mack, faithless minister and unfaithful husband, who is rescued from an accident by someone who just may be Satan. |
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... less directly , through infected water or food in which they have lodged , " and that thus the disease may be set up anew at points remote , both in time and space , from the immediate source of infection , it is obvious that the ...
... less directly , through infected water or food in which they have lodged , " and that thus the disease may be set up anew at points remote , both in time and space , from the immediate source of infection , it is obvious that the ...
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... less fatal . Of the four patients attacked on the 26th of August , three died , of whom one was a young robust epileptic , who lived but five hours after the first symptom ; another was a strong lunatic , who succumbed in nine hours ...
... less fatal . Of the four patients attacked on the 26th of August , three died , of whom one was a young robust epileptic , who lived but five hours after the first symptom ; another was a strong lunatic , who succumbed in nine hours ...
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... less fatal . Of the four patients attacked on the 26th of August , three died , of whom one was a young robust epileptic , who lived but five hours after the first symptom ; another was a strong lunatic , who succumbed in nine hours The ...
... less fatal . Of the four patients attacked on the 26th of August , three died , of whom one was a young robust epileptic , who lived but five hours after the first symptom ; another was a strong lunatic , who succumbed in nine hours The ...
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... less marked . During sleep , the physiognomy became more natural . The urine was again secreted , and in the few observations recorded was found to contain albumen . In less favorable cases , the period of reaction ushered in a ...
... less marked . During sleep , the physiognomy became more natural . The urine was again secreted , and in the few observations recorded was found to contain albumen . In less favorable cases , the period of reaction ushered in a ...
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... less frequent and the quantity of water lost at each discharge was di- minished . Extremities became warmer . Gradually , reaction was estab lished . Urine was not secreted freely for seventy - two hours . Conva- lescence slow and ...
... less frequent and the quantity of water lost at each discharge was di- minished . Extremities became warmer . Gradually , reaction was estab lished . Urine was not secreted freely for seventy - two hours . Conva- lescence slow and ...
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acid appeared arrived Assistant Surgeon attacked with cholera attended August board of health bowels calomel cholera morbus cholera occurred Cincinnati collapse Cook County cramps creek deaths occurred dejections diarrhoea died of cholera disease disinfected doses drachms early east emigrants epidemic epidemic cholera epidemic of 1873 epidemic of cholera fact fatal feet five four Hamilton County hospital hundred illness infected inhabitants instances intestinal July June large number Lebanon lived Louisville Marion County miles Mississippi month morphia Nashville negro night o'clock a. m. Ohio opium Orleans outbreak passengers patient Persia persons physicians port portion prevailed privy quarantine quinine railroad recovered reported residence rice-water discharges river Saint Louis Saint Louis County September street symptoms taken with cholera temperature thousand tion town treatment troops United States Army urine vessels visited vomiting vomiting and purging
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Página 261 - Cienfuegos, are likewise divided into two zones, namely, one to the east and the other to the west of the harbor of Batabano, divided by an imaginary line drawn from the harbor of Batabano to the mouth of the "Sierra de Casas" River in the Isle of Pines, passing between Malpaez and Boqueron.
Página 45 - It cannot be too distinctly understood that the person who contracts cholera in this country is ipso facto demonstrated with almost absolute certainty to have been exposed to excremental pollution; that what gave him cholera was (mediately or immediately...
Página 14 - States, the master shall submit for inspection to the officer of customs who first makes demand therefor, and shall subsequently deliver with his manifest of cargo on entry, a correct list, signed and verified on oath by the master, of all passengers taken...
Página 12 - VII. The dried particles of cholera poison may be carried (in clothing, bedding, etc.) to any distance; and when liberated may find their way direct to the alimentary canal through the medium of the air— by entering the mouth and nose and being swallowed with the saliva — or, less directly, through the medium of water or food in which they have lodged.
Página 15 - ... to prescribe such regulations, and make and issue such orders and instructions, not inconsistent with the constitution or any law of the United States, in relation to the duties of all diplomatic and consular officers, the transaction of their business...
Página 12 - The dried particles of cholera-poison may be carried (in clothing, bedding, etc.) to any distance; and when liberated may find their way direct to the alimentary canal through the medium of the air — by entering the mouth and nose and 1 Washington, 1875. being swallowed with the saliva — or, less directly, through the medium of water or food in which they have lodged.
Página 11 - It may also be destroyed artificially (1) by treating the cholera-ejections, or material containing them, with acids; (2) by such acid (gaseous) treatment of contaminated atmosphere; (3) by establishing an acid diathesis of the system in one who has received the poison.
Página 34 - The evidence is conclusive that the exhibition of opium, followed by alterative doses of calomel, and absolute rest in the recumbent posture, almost invariably arrested the disease when in the premonitory stage.
Página 594 - ... side of a street; in some cases it pursued a definite line across parallel streets, leaving the houses on either side of the line untouched. Sometimes it attacked places in groups; that is, it seized on a certain number of courts, alleys, and streets, decimating their inhabitants ; then ceased, and broke out in a similar manner, often at the opposite extremity of the district, occasionally returning again to the first locality : and this was equally its characteristic on a larger scale, for although...
Página 34 - In the advanced stages, the entire range of the pharmacopoeia seems to have been brought into use, with no better results than have been obtained in previous epidemics.