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

  • Jones, Richard Phillips
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1849
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    symptoms of malignant Asiatic Cholera in an ad- vanced stage. The letter is dated Sept. 19, 184-8, addressed to the Editor of The Record. “ I im- mediately gave a large tea spoonful of the chlo- roform mixture (containing about six minims of chloroform and forty of turpentine) in a glass of dilute brandy; and applied mustard poultices to the calves of the legs, the abdominal and thoracic muscles. Thirst was relieved by drinking plenty of water nearly cold. Notwithstanding the irrita- ble state of the stomach, I had the satisfaction to find that the chloroform draught was retained, as well as the fluid drank alter it, and was followed by no dejection. I now (half an hour after the draught) gave a pill, with a few grains of calomel. In another hour 1 again administered the same dose of chloroform, and soon after repeated the pill. The stomach retained both ; the pulse rose in power, and became slower; the spasms less frequent; and in an hour after the second dose, she was bathed in a profuse perspiration, and expressed herself comparatively free from all uneasy sensations. The attack was completely subdued, leaving behind it a good deal of debility, I'rom which she is ra])idly recovering.”—Vide ^Metropolitan Sanitory Commission, 1818. As this remedy requires to be used with some caution, on account of its strong direct dej)ressing power, and may be given as a valuable substitute