Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / y William Stevens.
- William Stevens
- Date:
- 1853
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / y William Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lapsed cases, upon cautious blood-letting, salt and mustard emetics, and mustard poultices. The hot bath, although always at command, had been found in many cases imprac- ticable, and the hot air-bath decidedly injurious. Having prepared a mixture, every two ounces of which contained one of the powders used at Coldbath-Fields, with a small quan- tity of brandy,* all future cases were treated (after the above preliminary measures had been practised) to the effect of this dose, repeated every half-hour until reaction was accomplished, when small doses of calomel and opium were given every two hours, till the gums were slightly sore, and healthy secretions established, after which the sulphate of quinine and mild aperients usually completed the cure. Fifty-six were thus treated, of whom eleven died, at the following periods after the commencement of the treatment. In six hours . ,, twelve ditto „ fifteen ditto ,, eighteen ditto „ twenty-six ditto ,, four days . 1 (a relapse.)t 5 (one a relapse.) 1 2 1 1 (a relapse.) 11 Of the [forty-five] recoveries, seven had severe premoni- tory symptoms, fourteen were moderately, twenty-five severely collapsed; fifteen had insensible serous purging, and in several * Although in Dr. Stevens' practice stimulants were entirely pro- hibited, a small proportion of brandy was added to the mixture because most of the patients had previously led irregular lives, and been long accustomed to smoking and dram-drinking. t These relapses were all previously recovered from even' appearance but arc [not] included as recoveries.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2039150x_0528.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
