Alexander F. Vaché
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 32
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...almost incredible fatality, one of the endemical diseases of India, clearly described by talented and unimpeachable authors. It was not, however, until 1817, when, with other ravages about the delta of the Ganges, it decimated the army under the command of the Marquis of Hastings, encamped on the banks of the Indus, that the disease assumed a positive epidemical form, and commenced its fearful migration to the East, the South, the West and the North. To trace it in the Eastern world, from place to place, and from period to period, as recorded by different writers, would scarcely come within the space allotted to a communication like the present; and I therefore shall confine any further observation, to the invasion by it of this hemisphere, with a short detail of the erratic course it pursued as it traveled from district to district. The first appearance of cholera on this continent was in Quebec, Lower Canada, on the 8th of June, 1832; it reached Montreal on the 10th; New York on the 24th; Albany on the 3d of July; Rochester on the 12th; Troy on the 16th; Flatbush and Gravesend, L. I., on the 15th; Tompkinsville, S. I., on the 17th; States Prison (Sing Sing, ) on the 17th;f Philadelphia on the 5th; Baltimore on the 22d of August, and the city of Washington on the 28th. It also prevailed in the large towns on the river St. Lawrence and its tributary streams. It exhibited itself at Kamarouska, La Prairie, St. Johns, Buffalo, La Chine, Caughnawaga, Coteau de Lac, Chataguay, Cornwell, St. Regis, Prescott, Ogdensburgh, Brookville, Kingston, York, Chambly, Pittsburgh and Three Rivers. It visited Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Va., Edenton, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and various portions of the southern states. At the east, a limited..