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Title: One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, ed
Subjects: Medicine Physicians
Publisher: (St. Louis) St. Louis Star
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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WILLIAM M. M IHEEXERS, M. D., ST. LOUTS. MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 53 CHAPTER IV.—THE CHOLERA EPIDEMICS. HISTORY OF EPIDEHIC CHOLERA IN ST. LOUIS IN 1849.* In this article I propose giving a report of the late fearful visitationof cholera in St. Louis, so far as it came under my own observation, as thepublished records of the city sIioav, and as I have been able to gatherfrom other authentic sources. Having no new views to present as to thenature, cause or treatment of cholera, I shall endeavor to confine myselfas closely as possible to facts, together with a statement of such generalconclusions as these facts seem to warrant. During the year I had chargeof the St. Louis Hospital—under the care of the Sisters of Charity—whichfor a long time was the sole, and throughout the epidemic, the principaldepot for the reception of cholera patients. My opportunities, therefore,for observing the disease were not surpassed by airy other individual. As early as the months of October, November an

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