Observations on Asiatic cholera: and facts regarding the mode of its diffusion / By T. Simpson.

  • Simpson, T., M.D.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Observations on Asiatic cholera: and facts regarding the mode of its diffusion / By T. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in several respects, is a fact beyond all doubt. For whilst one form prevails almost exclusively during the latter part of summer, or early in autumn; often arising from exposure to a cold evening air after a hot summer’s day, or from irregularities of diet; the other form has an existence independent of such physical conditions, and a power of extending itself over every part of the globe; and is, in a great measure, unaffected by all those circumstances which are alone concerned in the production of the former. The former disease is described with much conciseness and perspicuity by Hippocrates, in the 5th Book on Epidemics; by Celsus,*'' with his usual elegance of diction ; by Are- tseus the Cappadocian, still more in detail;— by Coelius Aurelianus, Asclepiades, Paulus jEginetta, and Avicenna. * Celsus, De Medicina, cap. xi., lib. ix.