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.

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    1 do not consider it necessary to enter in- to any detail of the symptoms which existed in the endemics, to which I allude; suffice it here to observe, that in every respect they resembled the endemics of India, every symptom showing itself to the same extent there described; and certainly, to see a pa- tient under the full diseased action of cho- lera, is one of the most distressing situations which a medical practitioner is ever called upon to witness. The constant action of retching and vomiting, the incessant inclina- tion to go to stool; and these, accompanied with the most severe and extensive spasms, produce such an effect upon the wretched pa- tient, as speedily to throw him into the most urgent state of distress, despair, and danger, and to astonish and alarm every one around him. When the symptoms have reached this climax, the necessity for relief becomes so pressing, that in general no time is lost in ap- plying for medical aid; yet I have seen the patient when I reached him, which was fre- quently within two hours from the attack of vomiting and purging, so much exhausted,
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