Congressional serial set Volume 1239

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...where he died. The following history of the appearance of the disease in the country near Aurora, on Fox river, 40 miles west of Chicago, was communicated to me by Mr. Favour, apothecary and student of medicine of that place: The first case that occurred was about five miles west of Aurora, in the person of a peddler who was direct from Chicago, lie stopped at Mr. Sanford,s, a farm-house on the road, on Wednesday, the 27th of June, and died of chelera on the following Sunday. On Monday Mr. Sanford was taken with the disease, but recovered. Several members of his family were soon after taken with diarrhoea, but all recovered speedily, and no other case occurred in the neighborheod or in the surrounding country until the 22d of July, when Mr. Van Fleet, a farmerliving three miles north of Aurora, returned from Chicago, where he had been to market, and was taken with the diease the same night lie died the next day. On the 24th, the day after he died, Mrs. Van Fleet, who attended upon him, was taken, and died IS hours after the attack. On the 27th, a brother of Mr. Van Fleet, who lived within a short distance of his house, was taken. This was all of the disease that had occurred in this neighborhood, which was otherwise healthy up to that time. About five miles distant from Mr. Van Fleet,s and eight miles from Aurora, a Mr. Leech was taken with cholera on his return home from Chicago, and diei ou the 24th of July. His sou was subsequently taken. These were the first cases in that neighborhood. The following account of the appearance of the disease in two neighborhoods is furnished by Dr. D. AV. Boyd, of Brush Hill, who attended upon the cases referred to: The Buck Horn tavern is 15 miles northwest of Chicago, on the Milwaukee road, and is kept by the doctor,s b...