Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / y William Stevens.

  • William Stevens
Date:
1853
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Credit: Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / y William Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of things, such a work might have been expected, not as an ungrateful task, but as a labour of love. The first of these is Mr. Wakefield, the Surgeon of Coldbath-Fields prison, the scene where the saline treatment was first tried on a large scale, and where it succeeded in a degree equal to, if not surpassing, the highest triumphs recorded of the healing art. But Mr. Wakefield, since he related its decided success in grateful terms, a few weeks after the first outbreak of the disease among the poor people under his care, has remained silent, and without even one word of remonstrance, he has ever since permitted the truth of his published statement, and the merits of the saline treatment, to be impugned in published official documents, which, acquainted as he was with the facts, he must have known to be incorrect. Another practitioner, to whom one would, on learning the history of the saline treatment, naturally assign the office of defending it from malignant mis- representation, is Mr. Marsden, of the then Free Hospital, Greville Street. In 1 832, that gentleman expressed his high sense of its merits in glowing terms, and in 1834 he repeated his commendation; but he has since refrained from any attempt at re- futing the attacks of its calumniators, and even—
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