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

  • James Kendrick
Date:
1832
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Credit: Cursory remarks on the present epidemick [of cholera] / [James Kendrick]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fifth.—Those in which Collapse, without any pre- ( monitory symptoms, has come on with intense violence, and rn which Life is liable to be destroyed in from four j 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, 1 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. “Primo aeque facienda mentio est choleras; quia commune id storaachi atque intestinorum vitium videri potest. Nam simul et dejectio et vomitus est: praeterque haec, inflatio est, intestina torquentur, bilis supra injraque erumpit, primum aquae similis, deinde ut in ea recens caro lota esse videatur, interdum alba, nonnunquam nigra, vel varia. Ergo eo nomine morbuin hunc xohfyav Craeci nominarunt. Praeter ea vero quae supra comprehensa sunt, saepe etiain crura manusque contrahuntur; urget sitis, anima deficit, quibus concurrentibus, non mirum est, si subito quis moritur. Xeque tumen ulli morbo
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