Observations on cholera asiatica; its symptoms, mode of treatment, and prevention. With an appendix / Selected and arranged by Richard Phillips Jones.

  • Jones, Richard Phillips
Date:
1849
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Credit: Observations on cholera asiatica; its symptoms, mode of treatment, and prevention. With an appendix / Selected and arranged by Richard Phillips Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION XI. ON THE FORMATION OF CHOLERA HOSPITALS, THE NECESSARY FURNITURE AND MEDICINES. It is of considerable importance that in all towns, and more particularly those in which Cholera has once appeared, there should he some convenient building appropriated for this specific purpose: to establish these institutions during the prevalence of the disease, has been found by experience to create considerable panic and confusion, and thus ^hey often prove of little use or*benefit to a com- munity. A private dwelling, school-room, or a dry barn may speedily be converted into a com- modious place for this purpose: if possible, it should have two sets of wards; one for the recep- tion of those in the state of collapse, and a second for those in the febrile stage. The furnishing should consist of iron bedsteads, about three feet wide ; mattresses, of coarse cloth, stuffed with kiln-dried straw; sheets, and an abundance of blankets. When a patient dies, the straw should be burnt, and all the bedding well washed. Each ward for the reception of patients in the stage of collapse, should have a stove and a large fire-]dace,