The antidotal treatment of the epidemic cholera / by John Parkin.

  • John Parkin
Date:
[1866?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The antidotal treatment of the epidemic cholera / by John Parkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    182/290 (page 176)
    there must be some other source of fallacy to be discovered.* That the failures elsewhere could not be ascribed to a variation in the type of the disease may be inferred from the fact, that precisely the same unsuccessful results were observed in Hull. Dr. Ay re having stated, that no one in Hull had ever abandoned his mode of treatment, after once employing it, or failed to become converts to the practice, when once they had attended in it with him, fourteen practitioners in that town signed a letter, which was inserted in the Hull Packet, to the following effect : We, the undersigned, beg leave to dissent from the truthfulness of it (the above assertion), so far as relates to our- selves. f Dr. Horner, a Physician at Hull, stated in addition, that when the Cholera visited Hull, in 1832, he requested Dr. Ayre to let him see his success in the first twelve cases he was called to. Speedily, I was summoned to four, which were treated by Dr. Ayre himself; three of these died, and I was never asked to any others! . . .At that time Dr. * Dr. Favell, of Sheffield, while referring to the treatment of Cholera by calomel, remarks: I cannot account for the wonderful discrepancies which we observe in the statements of different Medical Practitioners, except on the supposition that the cases which they treated were not identical. If calomel cures Cholera at Hull, how is it that it does not at Sheffield ? —Lancet, Vol. i., p. 710, 1832-3. •f- Lancet, October 6th, 1849.