Notes on the origin, nature, prevention, and treatment of Asiatic cholera / by John C. Peters.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Notes on the origin, nature, prevention, and treatment of Asiatic cholera / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTICES OF THE PRESS. (From the Chicago MedicalJournal, Oct., 1866.) We have read tliis monograph with much pleasure. An agreeable style does wonders for a dull subject. For the first time we have been interested by the chapter which forms the dreary introduction to aU other books on cholera—the chapter which is devoted to the history of the origin of the disease. Thanks to Dr. Peters, we have waded through the filth of Big- ginugar, Eamieseveram, of Jessore, Mysore, Conjeiveram, and the feast of Kuibar Bariam without losing aU stomach for the remainder of the book. This we consider a victory of no small importance to the author. The chapter on the course and dis- tribution of cholera presents an array of facts and arguments in proof of the portability and communicability of the germs of cholera which may be considered as decisive. It will be difficult for any one hereafter to entertain the miasmatic or atmospheric wave theory of the causation of the disease. It appears certain that the victim of cholera throws ofif, probably through the me- dium of the intestinal dejections, innumerable germs which are transported in a manner analogous to the distribution of the seeds of plants. The causes which favor the germination and reproduction of the one class of germs, are strictly analogous to those favorable to the growth of the other. The experience of our own community during the present visitation of cholera, fully illus- trates this proposition. Warmth, moisture, filth, and physical a