A practical treatise on the history, prevention, and treatment of epidemic cholera : designed both for the profession and the people.
- Daniel Drake
- Date:
- 1832
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on the history, prevention, and treatment of epidemic cholera : designed both for the profession and the people. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![the evacuation. The discharges from the stomach and those from the bowels, do not appear to differ, except in the former being mixed with the ingesta. Neither the vomiting nor the purging are symp- toms of long continuance; they are either obviated by art, or the body becomes unable to perform those violent actions; and they, together with the spasms, generally disappear a considerable time before death. If blood be drawn, it is always dark, or almost black; ropy, and generally of slow and diffi- cult effusion. Towards the close of the attack, jactation comes on, with evident internal anxiety, and distress; and death takes place, often in ten or twelve, generally within eighteen or twenty hours from the commencement of the attack. 'During all this mortal struggle and commotion in the body, the mind remains clear, and its func- tions undisturbed, almost to the last moment of existence. The patient, though sunk and over- whelmed, listless, averse to speak, and impatient of disturbance, still retains the power of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, as long as his organs are obedient to his will. Such is the most ordinary course of Cholera asphyxia, when its tendency to death is not checked by art. ' Cholera, like other diseases, has presented con- siderable variety in the symptoms. Thus, when the disease appears epidemical]}', it may on one occasion be distinguished throughout by the absence of vom- iting, and by the prevalence of purging; on another,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21026828_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
