The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1875 - 1053 pages 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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The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States United States. Surgeon-General's Office,John Maynard Woodworth Affichage du livre entier - 1875 |
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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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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.