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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    were warmer than the days ; the atmosphere, on both land and sea, was singularly stagnant, and bo unusually still, close, and hot, that it was impossible to ventilate even large houses, in which no change of air seemed to take place for almost a week together. 36?. Unusually high readings of the barometer, viz., over 30°, and up to 30.46°, and 30.48°. Such meteorological con- ditions have a marked tendency to favor the chemical de- composition of organic substances, and to render the season defective in those atmospheric changes, which, by decom- posing and dispersing into space the products of putre- faction, renew the purity of the air. 4:th. Lowness of site, swampy grounds, moist soil, decom- position of vegetable matter, and all those causes which tend to produce bilious and remittent fevers. bth. Foul camping grounds, filthy streets and yards. There is much proof, that not only the fresh moist soil of contam- inated grounds is injui-ious, but that these, even when in a dry and dusty condition, are equally dangerous. Numerous instances are given in India, in which traveDers, merchants, and soldiers, have encamped upon parched and arid places, and have quickly sickened in great numbers soon after the dust was thoroughly stirred up by the movements of men and animals. Qlh. Iminire wate)-, especially that which is poisoned by the washing of the iDcrsons or clothes of cholera sub- jects, or which has been fouled by cholera discharges di- rectly emptied into it, or whicli has had cholera matter per- colated into it through the soil, or by means of im]iorfcct drains.