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

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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$ment is concluded by a dose of castor oil and laud- anum, which never fails, when retained, to bring on a faecal discharge, instead of watery evacua- tions. In the second stage of the disease, in which vomiting and purging appear as the initia- tory symptoms, he abstracts blood, administers castor oil and laudanum, blisters the stomach, gives camphor with opium in pills, to allay spasm and check the purging after vomiting has ceased ; and finally, stimulants, to support the sinking state of the patient. The author prohibits bloodletting when the evacuations have long continued and positive debility is added to nervous collapse. Mr. M’Cann’s recommendations have been lauded by ]\Ir. Hodgson, of Birmingham, in his evidence before the Sanitary Commission. When sickness with derangement of the bowels is felt, the patient, if an adult, should mix a table spoon- ful of mustard, or double that quantity of common salt, in half a pint of warm water; a third part of either to be taken every ten minutes until free vomiting be produced. After the stomach has been well cleaned out with more warm water, 30 drops of laudanum should be given in a glass of brandy and water, and followed up with five grains of calomel and two grains of opium ; lesser doses to be taken at intervals of every two hours, until bile is observed to pass. Embrocations of heated$