PMID: 11625463Jan 1, 1997Paper

Vicar's daughter died of cholera after drinking salt sea water

Svensk medicinhistorisk tidskrift
S Cronberg

Abstract

In 1850 a vicar's daughter wanted to cure her lymphadenitis by health sea baths and drinking strengthening salt sea water. In the morning of the eleventh of August she took a bath and emptied three glass of salt sea water. At about 3 hours P.M. she fell ill with intensive watery diarrhoea and died on the following morning at 8 o'clock. Within one month 9 per cent of the population in the port of Malmo fell ill with cholera which killed every third of those affected. Necropsies were performed on some cases but did not reveal any remarkable changes. At the same time cholera attacked Lubeck and other ports of the Baltic sea. The sudden onset and the failure of quarantine precautions suggested intoxication of miasmic orgin. Thus the Swedish Medical Health authorities concluded that the disease was caused by atmospheric and telluric disturbances. Representatives of the Church opposed and considered that the disease was contagious. In 1883 Robert Koch discovered the cholera vibrion. Since then cholera has been considered as an intestinal infection. Cholera was supposed to affect only man, because it was not possible to transfer it to animals. Max von Pettenkofer disapproved the idea of contagiosity. He ingested cholera vibrions witho...Continue Reading

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