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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    appeared when sixteen days out; on the other, in twenty-six days ; or, nearly on the same day in the two vessels, which at that time were one thousand miles apart; the one in a low, the other in a high latitude. Some days before the outbreak on the New York, a very cold wind sat in, and there was a general ransacking among the baggage for warm clothing. On board the Swanton, just before the occurrence of the epi- demic, the weather was excessively warm, and the passengers searched for lighter clothing, and also rummaged their baggage. In both vessels there were passengers who had left infected places, and Dr. Clark infers that it is far more probable that the poison was carried in then- baggage, than to sup- pose that two different atmospheric currents of cholera struck these two vessels a thousand miles apart. As regards the ship New York our information is minute. Among the passengers were a number of German emigrants who came from a place where cholera prevailed. One of them had a chest of clothing that belonged to a person who had died of cholera. Near Cape Sable the weather became cold and boisterous ; the chest was opened and the clothing used ; by the 22d of November five persons died of cholera on ship- board, and twelve were landed sick with it at the Staten Island Quarantine.—In 1854, cholera passengers came to the vicinity of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; their clothes were sent to a high and healthy location at Lancaster ; the relatives, who washed these articles, died of cholera. A sailor died in Eiu-ope of cholera in 1832; a chest containing his clothing was sent home to a small village in Maine, and was opened on arrival; the inmates of the house were suddenly seized with cholera and some of them died. The venerable Dr. Mussy, and Dr. Reade are responsible for the aljove.—At Guadaloupo, in 1865,