Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / by Thomas Molison.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / by Thomas Molison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My stay at Newcastle was limited to the period of eleven days. Not that I had accomplished all that I wished ; but circumstances, into which it is unne- cessary to enter, constrained me to depart; nor do I wish to conceal, that the severe bodily and mental fatigue, to which I was exposed, might have had their influence upon my decision. I make these statements, that it may the more readily be understood, that I have no intention of writing a regular treatise on the epidemic. My sole purpose is, to furnish some of the results of the limited experience which I have enjoyed, and which, however imperfect, has served to afford me infor- mation which may not, perhaps, be destitute of importance. I propose to give an accurate account of the symptoms, such as I observed them, and of the treatment I found most efficacious; to subjoin a few remarks, which seem to be of practical utility ; and to finish with the details of a few of the more interesting cases. I was very speedily convinced, that this disease is totally different from any other that I had previously witnessed. Some of its milder symptoms are common to it, and to the indigenous Cholera ; but, on the whole, the two diseases are widely and specifically distinct. It has been stated, that there are three stages in this complaint, viz. ] st, one Premonitory; Qdly, a stage of Collapse ; and Sdly, the stage of Reaction. A very few remarks will suffice for the first of these. The stage of collapse is that which truly constitutes the disease, and therefore demands our principal