Surgeon-Major Henry Benjamin Hinton, born Swansea, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 7th March 1813. On Friday, March 7, 1913, on his one hundredth birthday he was the oldest living officer in the Empire and the oldest living member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He died in 1916 at the age of 103. Surgeon-Major Henry Benjamin Hinton's story is told from his journal, written in January 1887, and newspaper clippings held by his great great grandson, Philip Bramley.
Monday, October 23, 2006
The Surgeons Apprentice - Cholera
The first epidemic of Cholera in 1832 commenced in Limehouse, on the bank of the Thames, and with Mr Cumming I attended on several of the victims - the mortality rate was great and the disease coming from India spread over most parts of the world - the most successful as a temporary treatment was the injection of half a pint of warm water, containing a little salt, into a vein in the arm - this had an invigorating effect for an hour or two, but collapse generally followed shortly after.
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