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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    actual antidote to the poison itself, ap])eai's to be the most ready method of accomplishing the cure of Cholera. I introduce these pathological and practical remarks, as being highly important in the treatment, and may hapjnly serve to restrain a too extravagant or enthusiastic pursuance of remedies, stimulating or otherwise, and which may terminate in accelerating the progress of the disease.” While absorption is possible, the Author recommends bleeding and astringents, and a strong stimulus at the very commencement is occasionally useful. Of astringents, he preferred the acetate of lead, two or three grains, with a quarter of a grain of opium, every half hour, for the first two or three hours; then every hour for a variable period. The cramps best relieved by frictions with opium and turpentine, and mustard poultices to the cardiac region. Cold to the surface, and expose freely to the air, so as to counteract deeper changes in the blood, diffusible stimuli, provided vomiting is not reinduced. When vomiting and purging have been suspended, time should be given for res- piration to be properly performed, during which the patient should not be actively treated. He ob- serves that no one remedy is better than another; he has given in all stages calomel, opium, Indian hemp, camphor, quinine, creosote, tartar emetic, salines of all kinds, a'ther, hyoscyamus—large f doses of calomel became in many cases injurious.