1689. Engl. Transl. by Cockburn, 1693, p. 39.

[1393] _Obs. Med._ IV. cap. 2, § 7: “haud aliter ac si in aëre peculiaris mensis hujus [Augusti] lateat reconditum ac peculiare quiddam, quod specificam hujus modi alterationem, soli huic morbo adaptatam, vel cruori vel ventriculi fermento valeat imprimere.” [1394] See the reference to Simpson’s essay, _supra_, p. 333. [1395] W. Fordyce, M.D. _A new inquiry into the Causes, Symptoms and Cure of Putrid and Inflammatory Fevers: with an Appendix on the Hectic Fever and on the Ulcerated and Malignant Sore Throat._ London, 1773, p. 207. [1396] See the Representation of the College of Physicians on Drink in 1726, cited at p. 84. [1397] Joseph Clarke, M.D. “Nine-day Fits in the Lying-in Hospital of Dublin.” _Trans. Royal Irish Academy_ (in _Med. Facts and Obs._ III. 1792). [1398] Moss, u. s. He makes out that the infants of the poorer class were much neglected by their drunken parents. [1399] John Ferriar, M.D., _Medical Histories and Reflections_. 2 vols. Lond. 1810. II. 213 seq. “On the Prevention of Fevers in Great Towns.” [1400] Watt, u. s., says that “bowel-hive” at Glasgow included, along with teething, “a promiscuous mass which may be considered nearly in the same light as the great number of deaths in the London bills of mortality ranked under the terms convulsions, gripes of the guts, &c.... If the patient dies in a state of convulsions, this, we are told, is owing to the hives having gone in about the heart, or their having seized the bowels.” [1401] Hirsch, _Geographical and Historical Pathology_, Engl. Transl. III. 376. [1402] Supplement to the 45th Annual Report of the Registrar-General. London, 1885, p. xiii. Ballard, following the method of Pfeiffer (1871) for Asiatic cholera, has shown that the correspondence is closest with the temperature of the ground four feet deep. [1403] Ballard, _Report to the Local Government Board upon the Causation of Summer Diarrhoea_, 1889, p. 32. [1404] Willis mentions an instance (_Pathol. Cerebri_, Pordage’s transl. p. 25) which can hardly mean anything but congenital feebleness as a cause of infantile convulsions. A neighbour of his (in St Martin’s Lane) had lost all his children by convulsions within the space of three months. Another child was born, and Willis was sent for to advise what regimen should be followed so as to save it from the same fate. [1405] This is clearly seen in comparing ages at death in Liverpool, and in Preston or Salford. Again in the ten years 1871-80, there were 4530 deaths from diarrhoea in the group of shipping towns, Yarmouth, Hull (with Sculcoates), Goole and Hartlepool, of which 70 per cent. were under one year, 19 per cent. from one to five, and 11 per cent. above five, chiefly in old age. In the group of Leicester, Worcester, Northampton and Coventry in the same period, there were 5001 deaths, of which 74 per cent. were under one year, 17 per cent. from one to five, and 9 per cent. above five, chiefly in old age. [1406] Ballard, _Report, &c._ u. s. says that “occupation of females from home,” which had been often assigned by medical officers of health and others as a fruitful cause of infantile fatal diarrhoea, “resolves itself mainly into the question of maternal neglect, with the substitution more or less of artificial feeding for feeding at the breast.” Tatham, _Brit. Med. Journ._ 1892, II. 277, is of opinion that the rate of infant mortality was considerably increased by the practice, which obtained in most manufacturing towns, of allowing women to return to work within a week or ten days after their confinement, so that the duties of the mother were necessarily delegated. The paper by Dr G. Reid, _ibid._ p. 275, which called forth that and similar opinions as to the kind of maternal neglect that favoured the mortality by infantile diarrhoea, bore the title, “Legal restraint upon the employment of women in factories before and after childbirth”; but the emphasis falls almost wholly upon restraint of the mother’s industrial occupation after the child is born. [1407] L. c. pp. 43-45. [1408] Ballard, u. s. Table VI. [1409] See former volume, p. 412. [1410] _The Triall of Tabacco, &c._ by E. G. [Edmund Gardiner], Gent. and Practicioner in Physicke. London, 1610, fol. II. [1411] _Obs. Med._ IV. cap. 2. [1412] _Ibid._ IV. cap. 7. [1413] Dr Andrew Wilson, a pupil of the Edinburgh School in the great period of the first Monro, Whytt and Rutherford, used his Newcastle experiences in 1758 and following years as the basis of two excellent essays, one on Dysentery (1761) and the other upon Autumnal Disorders of the Bowels (1765). In the latter he includes both cholera nostras and bilious colic, (as well as dry colic) as Sydenham had done, and makes the following distinction between the two forms, which “are very nearly allied in their nature”:--“The vomiting of bile in the cholera is not so early as it is in the other; neither is it so constant, nor in so large quantities. Though a purging generally attends the bilious colic, yet it does not correspond so regularly as it does in the cholera, in which there generally is a call to stool soon after every paroxysm of vomiting.... The bilious colic is not generally so quickly hazardous as the cholera is. The intervals between the sick fits are often longer, and when it is attended with danger, it does not become so so suddenly as the cholera does.” Bilious colic was not so strictly an autumnal complaint as cholera. It was not so soon relieved by medicines. It resembled cholera in the remarkable character of exciting cramps in other muscles than the abdominal. [1414] _Pharmaceutice rationalis._ [1415] Appendix to _Essay on Smallpox_, 1740. [1416] _Gent. Magaz._, Sept. 1751, p. 398. [1417] _Two Papers on Fever and Infection_, 1763, p. 35. [1418] _Med. Hist. and Reflect._ II. 220. [1419] _Ed. Med. Surg. Journ._, 1807. [1420] Charles Turner Thackrah, _Cholera, its character and treatment, with remarks on the identity of the Indian and English_. Leeds, 1832, p. 24. [1421] W. Horsley, _Med. Phys. Journ._ 24 March, 1832, p. 270. [1422] _Geogr. and Histor. Path._ Engl. transl. III. 315. [1423] It is probable that the association of surfeit with bowel-complaint in general and at length with dysentery in particular came from the popular belief that these maladies of the autumnal season were due to repletion with fruit. That was the popular belief from an early period, which nearly all the medical writers on autumnal diarrhoea and dysentery took occasion to combat as either inadequate or erroneous. [1424] See Vol. 1. of this History, p. 626. The following is in a letter from Charles Bertie to Viscountess Campden, London, 22 Nov. 1681: “I have safely received your choice present of four bottles, three of Plague and the other of Surfeit water, which I shall preserve against the occasion, being confident that better are not made with hands.” _Cal. Belvoir MSS._ (Hist. MSS. Com.) II. 60. [1425] _Obs. Med._ IV. cap. 3. [1426] _Pharmaceutice Rationalis_, lib. III. cap. 3. [1427] _Supra_, p. 103. [1428] Andrew Fletcher, _Two Discourses, &c._ No. 2. p. 2, 1698. [1429] John Jones, M.D., _De Morbis Hibernorum specialim vero de Dysenteria Hibernica. Accesserunt nonnulla de Dysenteria Epidemica_. Inaug. Diss. Trin. Col. Dub. Londini, 1698, p. 12. [1430] _Edin. Med. Essays and Obs._ I. (1733) 37, II. 30, IV. V. [1431] James Stephen, surgeon to Gen. Whetham’s regiment, in Pringle’s collection of accounts of the “Success of the vitrum Antimonii ceratum.” _Ibid._ V. pt. 2, p. 179, 4th ed. [1432] Professor T. Simpson, of St Andrews, Andrew Brown, of Dalkeith, John Paisley and John Gordon, of Glasgow. _Ibid._ [1433] _Gent. Magaz._, 1741, p. 705. [1434] The “epidemic constitution” of 1743 was so markedly dysenteric after the influenza in the spring that Huxham regarded the dysentery as a sequela of the influenza. [1435] Mark Akenside, M.D., _De Dysenteria Commentarius_, London, 1764. [1436] George Baker, M.D., _De Catarrho et de Dysenteria Londinensi Epidemicis utrisque An._ MDCCLXII. _Libellus_, Lond., 1764. [1437] William Watson, M.D., in _Phil. Trans._ LII. pt. 2 (1762), p. 647. [1438] Pringle also, who was well acquainted with the dysentery of campaigns, speaks of the London epidemic as an exceptional occurrence, and as having caused few deaths. [1439] _Med. Obs. and Inquiries_, IV. (1771), p. 153. [1440] MS. Infirmary Book of the Foundling Hospital. [1441] _An Essay on the Autumnal Dysentery._ By a physician (Andrew Wilson, M.D.), Lond., 1761 (Preface dated Newcastle, 25 March, 1760), pp. 1, 23. [1442] _Trans. K. and Q. Col. Phys._ V. (1828), p. 221. [1443] _Obs. on the History and Treatment of Dysentery and its Combinations, etc._, 2nd ed., Dublin, 1847. [1444] _Alexandri Tralliani Medici libri duodecim._ Basil, 1556, Lib. VIII. pp. 423, 432. [1445] Akenside, _l. c._ “Ut dysenteriam jam pro rheumatismo intestinorum habeam, et similem utriusque morbi causam et materiem esse contendimus.” [1446] Hirsch, III. 333 (Eng. transl.): “As to the influence of an extreme diurnal range of the thermometer (cold nights after very hot days) there is almost complete agreement among the observers in those parts [tropical and subtropical] of the world.” [1447] I have enunciated this view of the pathology of acute rheumatism more fully in the Article “Pathology” in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_. [1448] _Lond. Med. Journal._ Editorial note, II. 211. The parish register of Finchley shows double the average mortality in 1780, and indicates dysentery as a fatal malady. Lysons, _Environs of London_. [1449] Moss, u. s. [1450] Francis Geach, F.R.S., _Some Observations on the present Epidemic Dysentery_, 1781. [1451] Dennis Ryan, M.D., “Remittent Fever of the West Indies.” _Lond. Med. Journ._ II. 253, iii. 63. [1452] Dr Livingston to Dr Lettsom, Aberdeen, 29 June, 1789, in _Memoirs of Lettsom_, III. [1453] Willan, _Report on the Diseases etc._, p. 42. The nearest approach to a fatality in dysentery, he says, happened in the case of a lady residing in Spa Fields, at whose window a brown owl, attracted by the solitary light, came flapping and hooting at midnight, to the great aggravation of the patient’s symptoms. [1454] Bateman, u. s. [1455] _Glasg. Med. Journ._ IV. (1831), pp. 5, 229. [1456] Cheyne, _Dubl. Hosp. Reports_, III. (1822), p. 3. At Limerick, from June to September, 1821, there were 47 cases among the men of the 79th regiment. [1457] Clarke, _Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ._ IV. 423. [1458] A. C. Hutchinson, _Statement of the extraordinary sickness at the Penitentiary at Milbank_, Lond. 1823; P. M. Latham, M.D., _Account of the Disease lately prevalent at the General Penitentiary_. Lond. 1825. [1459] James Wilson, _Glasgow Med. Journ._ I. (1828), p. 40. [1460] James Wilson, _Glasgow Med. Journ._ I. 39; James Brown, _ibid._; Macfarlane, I. 99; Paterson, I. 438; Editors, IV. 1; Hume (Hamilton), IV. 14, and 229; McDerment (Ayr), IV. 19; Macnab (Callander), IV. 241. [1461] Christison, “Notice on the Dysentery which has lately prevailed in the Edinburgh Infirmary.” _Edin. Med. Surg. Journ._ XXXI. (Jan. 1829), p. 216, and in _Life of Sir Robert Christison_, “Autobiography,” I. 376. [1462] W. H. Gilby, M.D., “On the Dysentery which occurred in the Wakefield Lunatic Asylum in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829.” _North of Eng. Med. and Surg. Journ._ I. (1830-31), 91. [1463] Hume, “Case of the Edinburgh New Town Epidemic.” _Glasgow Med. Journ._ IV. 229. [1464] _Ibid._ IV. 7. The following is Buchanan’s reference to it: “The only epidemic fever belonging to the family of diseases we are here considering that occurred in Scotland during the _dysenteric_ years was that of the New Town of Edinburgh, in 1828, of which we have already spoken. As our knowledge of this fever is not derived from any source on which we can certainly rely, it is possible that we may have formed an erroneous opinion respecting it; but from all we have heard of its symptoms and mode of distribution, we are disposed to consider it as totally different in nature from the common fever of this country. The latter circumstance alone, the mode of distribution of the disease, is, we think, perfectly sufficient to demonstrate our proposition. Instead of occupying the Cowgate, the Grassmarket, and the High Street, the usual haunts of typhus, this fever had its head-quarters in Heriot Row and Great King Street; and, according to our information, it extended from the last mentioned street in the direction of the Water of Leith, and from Leith, along the shore, to Musselburgh. We do not vouch for the accuracy of these minute details, but we believe the important fact to be beyond doubt that this fever prevailed chiefly, not in the districts where typhus is invariably to be met with, but in the most fashionable parts of the New Town.” [1465] James Black, M.D., _Edin. Med. Surg. Journ._ XLV. (1836), p. 63. “As the epidemic was ushered in and was accompanied during the half of its course with cholera, fever of a typhous character followed close in its train among the working and lower classes, and continued more or less during the first months of winter, after dysentery had totally disappeared.” The latter had not been seen again down to 1835. [1466] J. Smith, _ibid._ XLII. (1833), p. 342. [1467] Cleland, _Trans. Glasg. and Clydesd. Statist. Soc._ I. 1837. [1468] Arrott, _Edin. Med. Surg. Journ._, Jan. 1839, p. 121. [1469] Farr, in _First Report of the Registrar-General_, 1837-8, p. 103. [1470] Baly, _Pathology and Treatment of Dysentery_. London, 1847. [1471] Moyle, _Lond. Med. Gaz._ N. S. VII. Dec. 29, 1848, p. 1093. [1472] Christison, “On a local Epidemic of Dysentery.” _Month. Journ. Med. Sc._ XVII. (Dec. 1853), 508. [1473] T. S. Clouston, _Med. Times and Gaz._ 1865, I. 567. [1474] W. H. Duncan, M.D., “On the recent Introduction of Fever into Liverpool by the crew of an Egyptian frigate.” _Trans. Epidemiol. Soc._ vol. 1. pt. 2. p. 246. (1 July, 1861). [1475] James Boyle, surgeon to H. M. S. ‘Minden,’ _Epidemic Cholera of India_, London, 1821; W. B. Carter, _Cholera Indica vel Spasmodica_, Thesis, Glasgow, 1822; Thomas Brown, of Musselburgh, _On Cholera, more especially as it has appeared in British India_, Edin. 1824; Whitelaw Ainslie, M.D., _The Cholera Morbus of India_, Letter to the Court of Governors, H. E. I. C., Edin. 1825; A. T. Christie, M.D. (of Madras), _Obs. on the Nature and Treatment of Cholera_, Edin. 1828; Charles Searle (of Madras), _Cholera, its Nature, Cause and Treatment_, London, 1830 (dated 1st May, instigated, not by the Orenburg epidemic, but by the deaths of Sir Thomas Monro and others from cholera in Madras). [1476] See extract in _Glas. Med. Journ._, Feb. 1831, p. 105, from _Scottish Mission. and Philan. Reg._ [1477] George Hamilton Bell, _Treatise on Cholera Asphyxia or Epidemic Cholera as it appeared in Asia and more recently in Europe_, Edin. 1831; Reginald Orton, _An Essay on the Epidemic Cholera of India_, 2nd. ed. with a supplement, London, 1831 (August); 1st ed. Madras, 1820; H. Young, M.D. (of the Bengal Service), _Remarks on the Cholera Morbus_, 2nd ed. 1831; Alex. Smith, M.D. (Calcutta), _Description of the Spasmodic Cholera_ (substance of an old report to the Army Medical Board); W. Macmichael, M.D., _Is the Cholera Spasmodica of India a Contagious Disease?_ London, 1831 (Sept.); T. J. Pettigrew, _Obs. on Cholera, comprising a description of the Epidemic Cholera of India_, London, 1831 (13 Nov.); John Austin, _Cholera Morbus, Indian and Russian Cholera_, London, 1831 (July); John Goss, late H. E. I. C. S., _Practical Remarks on the Disease called Cholera_, London, 1831 (Nov.); Whitelaw Ainslie, _Letters on the Cholera_, London, 1832 (from Edinburgh, Dec. 1831); Henry Penneck, M.D., _Nature and Treatment of the Indian Pestilence commonly called Cholera_, London, 1831 (Penzance, 24 Nov.); A. P. Wilson Philip, _Nature of Malignant Cholera_, London, 1832; _Official Reports made to Government by Drs Russell and Barry on Cholera Spasmodica observed during the Mission to Russia in 1831_, London, 1832; John V. Thompson, Dep. Insp. Gen. of Hosps. _The Pestilential Cholera unmasked_, Cork, 1832 (January). [1478] _Op. cit._ p. 469. [1479] _Lond. Med. Gaz._ 1831. [1480] James Hall, “Narrative of an Epidemic English Cholera that appeared on board ships of war lying in ordinary in the River Medway during the Summer and Autumn of 1831.” _Edin. Med. Surg. Journ._, Feb. 1832, p. 295. [1481] John Marshall, M.D., _Obs. on Cholera as it appeared at Port Glasgow in July and August, 1831. Illustrated by numerous cases._ 1831. [1482] William Dixon, _Lond. Med. Gaz._ 4 Feb. 1832, IX. 668. [1483] Dixon, u. s. [1484] Kell, p. 22. [1485] Kell, Dixon, and others; the statements about Henry’s case are contradictory. [1486] Clanny, p. 19. [1487] A table of the daily course of the cholera at Sunderland, which I must omit for want of space, is given in the essay by Haslewood and Morbey, _History and Medical Treatment of Cholera as it appeared in Sunderland in 1831_, London, 1832, p. 151. [1488] Kell, however, suspected that there were many malignant cases in Monk Wearmouth after the 31st of October, which were not reported. l. c. p. 73. [1489] Clanny says (p. 42), “At first our epidemic appeared only in certain streets or lanes, namely, the Fish Landing, Long Bank, Silver Street, High Street, Burleigh Street, Mill Hill, Sailors’ Alley, Love Lane, Wood Street, Warren Street; as also in several lanes in Bishopwearmouth, the New Town, Ayre’s Quay, and on the north side of the river in Monkwearmouth, in several of the byelanes near the river.... Generally speaking the disease fixed its residence in such places as medical men could have pointed out _à priori_.” [1490] Besides the essay of Haslewood and Morbey, and the paper by Dixon, _supra_, the following were written on the Sunderland cholera: W. Ainsworth, _Obs. on the Pestilential Cholera at Sunderland_, London, 1832; John Butler Kell, surgeon to the 82nd Regt., _Cholera at Sunderland in 1831_, Edin. 1834; W. Reid Clanny, M.D., (chairman of the Local Board of Health), _Hyperanthraxis, or the Cholera of Sunderland_, Lond. 1832; Emile Dubuc, _Rapport sur le Cholera Morbus à Sunderland, Newcastle, etc._ Rouen, 1832. [1491] Ainsworth, p. 164, u. s., says: “Dennis Mc Gwin, who took the disease to North Shields, came from Sunderland. The first case in South Shields was a boy from Gateshead. A pedler woman took it to Houghton, a traveller to Morpeth, and I have no doubt its arrival could similarly be traced to Durham, Haddington and Tranent, all towns on the same high road. A wanderer also perished of the disease at Doncaster; but luckily there were no other cases.” [1492] T. M. Greenhow, M.D., _Cholera as it has recently appeared in the Towns of Newcastle and Gateshead, including Cases_, London, 1832; Thomas Mollison, M.D., _Remarks on the epidemic Disease called Cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle_, Edin. 1832. (He arrived at Newcastle from Edinburgh on the 21st Dec. and remained eleven days.) [1493] In Greenhow, u. s. [1494] Craigie, _Edin. Med. Surg. Journ._ XXXVII. 337. [1495] John Douglas, M.D., “History of the Epidemic Cholera of Hawick,” in _Cholera Gazette_, no. 6, April 7, p. 234. [1496] Chiefly from the paper by Professor George Watt, _Glas. Med. Journ._ v. 298, 384; see also Bryce, _ibid._ 262. [1497] W. Auchincloss, M.D., “Report of the Epidemic Cholera as it appeared in the Town’s Hospital of Glasgow in February and March, 1832,” _Glas. Med. Journ._ v. 113. [1498] James Cleland, LL.D., and James Corkindale, M.D., _Edin. Med. Surg. Journ._ XXXIX. 503. [1499] J. Adair Lawrie, M.D., “Report of the Albion Street Cholera Hospital.” _Glas. Med. Journ._ V. 309, 416. [1500] _Month. Journ. Med. Sc._ March, 1850, p. 302. [1501] Wood, _Glas. Med. Journ._ VI. 1833. [1502] Grieve, _Month. Journ. Med. Sc._ IX. 1849, p. 777. [1503] Scott, _Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ._ XXXIX. 276. For a whole month it was confined to one suburb. All the earlier cases were without exception fatal. There were 130 cases and 65 deaths. [1504] It is probably to Portmahomak or Inver that Howison refers in the following (_Lancet_, 10 Nov. 1832, p. 203): Cholera broke out in a small village several miles from Tain, and in a few days it carried off 41 out of a population of 120 to 140. Coffins could not be made fast enough. Many were buried in sailcloth. The people fled from their houses to the fields. [1505] Hugh Miller, _My Schools and Schoolmasters_, Chap. XXII. [1506] The good account by Paterson, “Observations on Cholera as it appeared at Collieston and Footdee,” _Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ._ XLIX. (1838), p. 408, shows how much panic a mortality of nine stood for. [1507] Sir J. Y. Simpson gave to Dr Graves of Dublin a list of some places in Scotland where cholera had appeared, which contains the additional names of Helmsdale (23 July), Fort William (24 Sept.), Fort George (7 May), Islay (23 Oct.), Portpatrick (7 Aug.), Crieff (2 Oct.), and Kelso (29 Oct.). [1508] _Dubl. Journ. Med. Sc._ III. 74. [1509] _Times_, 1 July, 1832. [1510] Simon McCoy, “Notes on Malignant Cholera as it appeared in Dublin,” _Dub. Journ. Med. Sc._ II. 357, and III. 1. [1511] Compare Grimshaw’s observations on the admissions for fever to the Cork Street Hospital in the summer of 1864, _supra_, p. 298. [1512] Wilde, _Census of Ireland 1841_. Table of Deaths, p. xxi. [1513] _Gent. Magaz._ 1832, June, p. 555; _Annual Register_, 1832, Chronicle (June), p. 71. [1514] Graves, _Dubl. Quart. Journ. Med. Sc._ Feb. 1849, p. 31, from information by Dr Little of Sligo. [1515] W. Howison, M.D., of Edinburgh, _Lancet_, 10 Nov. 1832, p. 203. He was at Londonderry in August, and had probably heard the reports of the Sligo cholera there. [1516] John Colvan, M.D., _Dubl. Journ. Med. Sc._ IV. 186. These five deaths in Armagh County in 1833 do not appear in the table. [1517] Graves, u. s. 1849, VII. 246. [1518] Roupell, _Croomian Lectures on Cholera_, Lond. 1833, p. 33, gives the suspicious case of a man named Webster, who sailed from Sunderland on 20 Jan. and arrived in the Thames about the 30th. “The vessel immediately obtained _pratique_; but a few days after, this man was seized with extreme pain in the epigastrium” &c. and died suddenly after symptoms in part those of cholera. Postmortem, 20 oz. of blood were found in the peritoneum, and some blood in the lower part of the bowel. [1519] The populous parishes of the Black Country around Wolverhampton came under notice in another way in 1832 as a crucial instance in the redistribution of seats by the Reform Act. [1520] T. Ogier Ward, “Cholera in Wolverhampton in Aug.-Oct. 1832,” _Trans. Prov. Med. and Surg. Assoc._ II. 368. [1521] Rev. W. Leigh, _An authentic narrative of the awful visitation of Bilston by Cholera in Aug.-Sept. 1832_. Wolverhampton, 1833. [1522] Rev. C. Girdlestone, _Seven Sermons preached during the prevalence of the Cholera in the parish of Sedgley, with a narrative of that visitation_. London, 1833. [1523] T. Ogier Ward, u. s., p. 376. [1524] James Collins, M.D., _Lond. Med. Gaz._ 30 June, 1832, p. 412; and report by Thompson, surgeon of the ‘Brutus,’ in the _Cholera Gazette_, s. d. [1525] Henry Gaulter, M.D., _The Origin and Progress of the Malignant Cholera in Manchester_. London, 1833, p. 113. [1526] The first case was of a coach-painter, who had had frequent attacks of painter’s colic. Opposite his house was a large stable dunghill in a very foetid state. On the evening of the 16th May he had eaten a heavy supper of lambs’ fry, and had been ill thereafter, the symptoms becoming those of Asiatic cholera on the night of the 18th, death ensuing at 2 p.m. 20th. [1527] In the hamlet adjoining a cotton-mill at Hinds, near Bury, consisting of thirty cottages in a row between the mill lade and the canal, wretchedly built, without chimneys, with windows that would not open, the inmates sleeping four or five in a bed, there were 32 cases of cholera with 7 deaths, but none of these were in persons who worked in the mill. Gaulter, u. s. citing Goodlad. He cites also Flint, of Stockport, for the rarity of attacks among the mill workers in that town. See also Samuel Gaskell, “Malignant Cholera in Manchester,” _Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ._ XL. 52. The microbic theory, or, as it was then called by Sir Henry Holland and others, the “hypothesis of insect life,” was happily thought of by a working cotton-spinner in Manchester to explain the immunity of the mill-workers in 1832. Gaulter (u. s. p. 120) gives in correct English what would probably have been said in the vernacular as follows: “I’ve been thinkin’, Maister,” said a spinner to Mr Sowden, millowner, “as how th’ cholery comes o’ hinsecks that smo’ as we corn’d see ’em, an’ they corn’d live i’ factories for th’ ’eät and th’ ile. Me an’ my mates wor speakin’ o’t last neet, an’ we o’ on us thowt th’ saäm thing.” Hahnemann, cited by the _Times_, 17 July, 1831, believed that the cholera insect escaped from the eye, and fastened upon the hair, skin, clothes, &c. of other persons. The common microscopic objects uniformly found in the choleraic discharges by later observers have been vibrios, of which half-a-dozen, or perhaps a dozen, varieties have been distinguished. One of these was somewhat audaciously named the “cholera germ” or “comma bacillus of cholera” by Dr R. Koch, who went to Calcutta in 1884. All vibrios, which have a corkscrew form when in motion, are apt to assume the comma form when at rest. [1528] _Times_, Sept. 5, 1832. [1529] John Addington Symonds, “Progress and Causes of Cholera in Bristol, 1832.” _Trans. Prov. Med. Surg. Assoc._ III. 170. [1530] Some cases were detailed by Edward Blackman, M.D., _Lond. Med. Gaz._ 1832, pp. 473, 546. [1531] Thomas Shapter, M.D., _The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832_. London, 1849, pp. 297. [1532] Besides the papers or books already cited, accounts were published for the following places: Warrington, by Mr Glazebrook, secretary to the Local Board of Health; Oxford, by Rev. V. Thomas; Hull, by James Alderson, M.D.; Kendal, by Thomas Proudfoot, M.D. (_Edin. Med. and Surg. J._ XXXIX. 85); various places by J. Y. Simpson, M.D. (_ibid._ XLIX. 358); Tynemouth, by E. H. Greenhow, M.D. (_Trans. Epid. Soc._ 1861); London, by Halma-Grand (_Relation_ etc. Paris, 1832), and by Gaselee and Tweedie (Lond. 1832). There are also various minor notices: for Whittlesea (_Lond. Med. Gaz._ I. 1832, p. 448), Hutton, Yorkshire (_ibid._ II. 1832, p. 316), York (_Lancet_, 13 Oct. 1832, p. 72), Cheltenham, showing how it was kept free (_ibid._ Nov. 10, p. 210), St Heliers, Jersey (_Lond. Med. Surg. J._ II. 359), Derby (_ibid._ 11. 383). [1533] The daily mortality in Paris at the beginning of the epidemic was as follows (_Annual Register_, 1832, p. 318): Days Cholera deaths March 27-31 98 April 1 79 2 168 3 212 4 242 5 351 6 416 7 582 8 769 9 861 10 848 11 769 12 768 13 816 14 692 15 567 16 572 To the 16th of April the deaths were about 8700; before the end of the month the total was nearly doubled. As the whole cholera mortality of Paris in 1832 was about 19,000, April must have had much the greater part of it. [1534] Proudfoot, _Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ._ XXXIX. 99. [1535] Graves, who was a strong contagionist (l. c. 1848-49), cites the instances of nuns, nurses and porters at Tuam, and of medical men at Sligo. [1536] G. D. Dermott, lecturer in Anatomy and Surgery, _Lond. Med. and Surg. Journ._ 1832, p. 274. [1537] John Parkin, surgeon H.E.I.C.S., “Cause, Nature and Treatment of Cholera.” _Lond. Med. and Surg. Journ._ 1 Sept. 1832. [1538] Graves, _Clinical Medicine_, 1843, p. 700: “I could bring forward the names of many medical men in Dublin whose lives, I am happy to say, were saved by the use of this remedy.” [1539] Paterson, u. s. for the fishing village of Collieston, Aberdeenshire: “In most instances where the lancet was used at the proper period little else was required. The patient, although in an apparently hopeless state at the time of my visit, was in these instances not unfrequently in the course of twenty-four hours out of danger.” [1540] A correspondent of the _Lond. Med. Gaz._ Sept. 1832, p. 731, dating from Warrington, proved by a statistical arrangement of 103 cases of cholera, that the saline treatment was nearly certain recovery, that the same combined with blood-letting was certain recovery, that blood-letting alone was certain death, and that opium with stimulants, and Morison’s pill, were each uniformly followed by a fatal result. Cases Deaths Percentage of recoveries Aged, neglected or seen too late 30 30 0 Obstinately refused medicine 4 4 0 Treated by opium and stimulants 23 23 0 " by Morison’s pill 3 3 0 " by blood-letting 13 13 0 " by blood-letting and salines 7 0 100 " by salines alone 23 2 92·3 --- -- --- 103 75 27 per cent. [1541] _Quarterly Review_, CXVIII. 256. [1542] Reported by Brewster to J. Y. Simpson, _Edin. Med. Surg. Journ._ XLIX. (1838), p. 368. [1543] _Glas. Med. Journ._ VI. (1833), p. 366. Stark says, perhaps for Edinburgh, that cholera recurred in the end of 1833 and beginning of 1834, with a high degree of fatality. [1544] Edmond Sharkey, M.B., _Dubl. J. Med. Sc._ XVI. 13. Of 28 houses or cabins (nearly all in three hamlets) which together had 76 cases, 16 cabins had each two cases, 8 had each three, 1 had four, 2 had each five, and 1 had six. The type of sickness was the same as in 1832-33. [1545] R. Green, M.D., _Lancet_, 14 April, 1838, p. 83: true Asiatic cholera began at Youghal in the second week of December, 1837, and lasted two months, about 200 having been attacked: “two of my relatives, Miss A. ---- and Mrs K. ----, died in December of cholera, one in fourteen hours, the other in ten hours.” [1546] Deaths from Cholera in the Coventry House of Industry: 1838. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Total 7-11 12-16 17-21 22-26 27-31 1-5 7 4 15 20 7 2 55 Twenty-seven were males and twenty-eight females. The ages were as follow: under 1-5 5-10 10-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-90 Total one 1 6 4 4 3 8 20 9 55 --_Second Report of the Registrar-General_, p. 98. [1547] Stark, _Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ._ LXXI. (1849), p. 388; W. Robertson, _Month. Journ. Med. Sc._ IX. (1849). The other outbreaks reported in that part of Scotland (_ibid._) were slight--at Dalkeith, Haddington, Borrowstowness. [1548] Easton, _Glas. Med. Journ._ V. 444. [1549] Sutherland, _Report of the Board of Health_. [1550] Sutherland, _Report_, u. s.; Grieve, _Month. J. Med. Sc._ IX. 777. Barker, _ibid._ 940 (gives good account of the stormy weather). [1551] _Month. Journ. Med. Sc._ IX. 783, 857, 1011, X. 403. [1552] _Ibid._ IX. 1009. [1553] Sutherland, _Report_, u. s. The year 1847, in which there was no cholera, had been much more fatal in the chief towns of Scotland, than either 1848 or 1849, owing to the great prevalence of typhus (Stark): _Deaths from all causes._ 1846 1847 1848 1849 Edinburgh 4594 6706 5475 4807 Glasgow 10854 18071 12475 12231 Dundee 1531 2520 2146 2312 Paisley 1429 2068 1552 1712 Leith 801 955 1212 1066 Greenock 1087 2214 1289 2344 Aberdeen 1315 1466 2366 [1554] H. MacCormac to Graves, _Dub. Journ. Med. Sc._ N. S. VII. 245. [1555] Most of the information on the cholera of 1849 in England comes from two sources: (1) the _Report of the General Board of Health on the Epidemic Cholera of 1848 and 1849_ (Parl. papers, 1850), containing the detailed reports of Mr R. D. Grainger for London, and of Dr John Sutherland for various other towns; and (2) the _Quarterly Reports of the Registrar-General for the year 1849_. See also note 3, p. 846. [1556] Sutherland, _Report_, u. s. p. 121. At Sheffield (_ibid._ p. 108) a sudden outbreak of diarrhoea occurred on 26 August over the whole town; 5319 cases of it were known, with only 76 cases of cholera and 46 deaths. [1557] Henry Cooper, “On the Cholera Mortality in Hull during the epidemic of 1849,” _Journ. Statist. Soc._ XVI. 347. The total is higher than that in the Table. [1558] Sutherland, _Report_, u. s., with map. [1559] For Bristol, Sutherland (p. 126) cites Goldney: “In a certain lodging-house there were 35 attacks and 33 deaths during the epidemic of 1832.... Out of the same house in 1849, 64 people were turned, of whom 49 were sent to the House of Refuge.” Not one case of cholera occurred among these, but many attacks of diarrhoea, which was general all through the epidemic, especially along the Frome. [1560] The epidemic in the small Devonshire fishing village of Noss Mayo near Plympton St Mary, was very fully investigated by A. C. Maclaren, _Journ. Statist. Soc._ XIII. (1850), p. 103. The Oxford epidemic (75 deaths) was described by Greenhill and Allen in the _Ashmolean Society Reports_. For Tynemouth, see Greenhow, _Trans. Epid. Soc._ The volume by Baly and Gull, _Reports on Epidemic Cholera drawn up at the desire of the Cholera Committee Roy. Col. Phys._ London, 1854, is in great part a review of the epidemic of 1849, in the form of a general discussion of the whole problem of Asiatic cholera. A subcommittee of the College also published a _Report on the nature of the microscopic bodies found in the intestinal discharges of Cholera_, London, 1849. [1561] Farr, “Influence of elevation on the mortality of Cholera.” _Journ. Statist. Soc._ XV. (1852), p. 155, and in the Reports of the Registrar-General. [1562] C. Barham, M.B., “Tavistock Parish Register,” _Journ. Statist. Soc._ IV. 37. [1563] Middleton, “Sanitary Statistics of Salisbury,” _ibid._ XXVII. (1864), p. 541. [1564] _Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the late outbreak of Cholera in Newcastle, Gateshead and Tynemouth._ Parl. papers, 1854, pp. xl and 580. [1565] The most elaborate and minute account of an epidemic on this occasion was that for Oxford, _Memoir on the Cholera at Oxford in the year 1854_. By H. W. Acland, M.D., in which all the points in the problem of cholera are illustrated from the easily surveyed local circumstances. [1566] The registration district of Bideford had 46 deaths in 1854, the only large total in the West country. Kingsley’s graphic picture of the cholera of 1854 in _Two Years Ago_ may have corresponded to these naked figures in the registration tables; but no place in Cornwall, in which county the scene appears to be laid, could have furnished so considerable an epidemic as the novelist describes, a few places in it having had each some half-dozen deaths. [1567] More than half in the end of 1853. [1568] Nearly all in the end of 1853. [1569] It was reported on by three commissioners, Dr Donald Fraser and Messrs Thomas Hughes and J. M. Ludlow, in the _Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries, Cholera Epidemic of 1854_. Appendix. [1570] John Snow, M.D., _On the mode of communication of Cholera_. London, 1849, 2nd ed. 1855. [1571] _General Board of Health, Report on Scientific Inquiries_, 1854, p. 52. [1572] J. W. Begbie, _Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ._ April, 1855, p. 250. [1573] _Glas. Med. Journ._ N. S. II. 127; III. 116, 500; John Crawford, M.D., “Report of Cases in the Cholera Hosp.” _ibid._ III. 48. [1574] W. Alexander, M.D., _Edin. Med. Journ._ II. 86. The _Edin. Med. Journ._ I. July, 1855, p. 81, contains a few lines of abstract of a paper by W. T. Gairdner on the diffusion of cholera in the remote districts of Scotland. Information on the subject is invited, but it does not appear that any full account of the cholera of 1854 in Scotland was published. It is known to have been in Aberdeen. [1575] _Census of Ireland 1861_, Part III. vol. 2, p. 23. [1576] Compiled from Grainger’s report for 1849, the Registrar-General’s Reports for 1854 and 1866, a table in _Lancet_, I. 1867, p. 125, and, for 1866, a table by Radcliffe, in _Rep. Med. Off. Priv. Council for 1866_, p. 339. [1577] Radcliffe, _Rep. Med. Off. Privy Council for 1866_, p. 294. [1578] Scoutetten, _Histoire médicale et topographique du Cholera Morbus_, Metz, 1831; and _Histoire chronologique du Cholera_, Paris, 1870. David Craigie, M.D., “Remarks on the History and Etiology of Cholera,” _Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ._ XXXIX. (1833), 332. John Macpherson, M.D., _Annals of Cholera_, London, 1872 and 1884. N. C. Macnamara, _A History of Asiatic Cholera_, London, 1876. * * * * * * Transcriber's note: Footnote 427 appears on page 233 of the text, but there is no corresponding marker on the page. Footnote marker 562 appears on page 312 of the text, but there is no corresponding footnote on the page. *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS IN BRITAIN, VOLUME 2 (OF 2) *** Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be renamed. 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