British cholera : its nature and causes considered in connexion with sanitary improvement, and in comparison with Asiatic cholera / by Spencer Thomson.

  • Thomson Spencer, -1886.
Date:
1848
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. The author of the following Treatise cannot per- mit it to go forth, without appending some notice of two omissions, which by some might be con- sidered serious defects. The first of these omissions, is the absence of post-mortem evidence. In the first stage of British or Bilious Cholera, any oppor- tunity for examination could only be presented by death occurring from some coincident cause, and therefore the chance must be a very rare one—pro- bably from the nature of the affection, there would not be much of pathological interest discoverable. Recorded examinations after death from the second stage of Bilious Cholera, give evidence only of such appearances as we might expect—more or less irri- \ tation of the mucous coat of the bowels, according to the extent and duration of the attack. The second omission, is the absence of direct proof from chemical examination, of that condition' of the blood, which from other evidence is considered to
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