On cholera, more especially as it has occurred during late years in British India, a letter addressed to Sir James McGrigor, M.D. ... / by Thomas Brown.

Date:
1824
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Credit: On cholera, more especially as it has occurred during late years in British India, a letter addressed to Sir James McGrigor, M.D. ... / by Thomas Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    hour all the horrors of my patient’s situation were overcome. After the sparing use of liquids for the first hour, I gradually rose to mouthfuls, and by the expiration of a second, the patient was permitted the free use of panada, with a lit- tle brandy in it, which, together with differ- ent gruels, made the principal part of his nourishment during the first twenty-four hours. Sometimes the vomiting and purg- ing would return after the exhibition of the opium, but seldom lasted long if you were sure the dose remained, and which indeed it is very difficult to bring up again, from its smallness eluding the contraction of the sto- mach in the action of vomiting. But it some- times happened the patient had been swal- lowing immense draughts of liquid imme- diately before the opiate was taken, in which case, the action of vomiting generally return- ed before the pill could take effect, and then I immediately gave another, whether I was able to detect or not that the opiate had been rejected. When the opium was given with a cer- tainty that the stomach was empty, with the
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