Cursory remarks on the present epidemick [of cholera] / [James Kendrick].

  • James Kendrick
Date:
1832
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    Fifth.—Those in which Collapse, without any pre- monitory symptoms, has come on with intense violence, and in which Life is liable to be destroyed in from four to ten hours. Sixth.—The very aged and infirm, in whom the Symptoms of Collapse shew themselves with even a moderate degree of intensity. The First are, I believe, generally speaking, easily manageable. The Second by the saline mode of treatment. The Fourth by the saline mode of treatment, coupled with a rapid mercurialization of the system. The two last, it is almost needless to say, set every known mode of medical treatment at defiance. Too much cannot be said as to the importance of accurately distinguishing the present Epidemick from other Diseases ; the mischiefs arising from such mis- takes being incalculable. I would recommend to all such as are disposed to consider it as identical with Cholera, to study the brief but graphical description of Cholera given by Celsus, eighteen hundred years ago ; and which, as being a picture drawn from Nature, must necessarily be defaced by diminution or addition. Let the Picture drawn by him be examined, and then compared with that of the present Epidemick. Frimo ajque facienda mentio est choleras; quia commune id stomachi atque intestinorum vitium videri potest. Nam simul et dejectio et vomitus est: praeterque ha?c, infiatio est, intestina torquentur, bilis supra infraque erumpit, primum aquse similis, deinde ut in ea recens caro lota esse videatur, interdum alba, nonnunquam nigra, vel varia. Ergo eo nomine morbum hunc x°^?av Grasci nomiuarunt. Prater ea vero quae supra tomprehensa sunt, saepe etiam crura manusque contrahuntur; urget sitis, anima deficit, quibus concurrentibus, non mirum est, si subito quis moritur. Neque tamen ulti morbo
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