Notes on the epidemic cholera / By R. Hartley Kennedy.

  • Richard Hartley Kennedy
Date:
1846
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    made within four or six hours from the first appear- ance of the disease, the cure is almost effected. It does not appear very difficult to allay the stomach and bowels ; and it is seldom necessary to repeat the calo- mel more than two or three times, provided the first dose has been rejected: but where the stomach is more irritable, the calomel and solid opium, with con- fectio roscB forma holi, is found to answer better than the fluid laudanum. The bath, after the exhibition of this medicine, has the most beneficial effect, and quiets all the symptoms in a wonderful manner. Notwithstanding the early exhibition of the remedies, the disease yet appears to run through a kind of course; for the symptoms of coldness and total absence of pulse frequently take place where there appears to have been but little disturbance in the primcB viceP After a few further observations, Mr. Craw con- tinues:—The disease, as effecting many of the Europeans, appears to me to be a true tetanus; and though my professional friends, (as it appears to me, misled by the irritability of the stomach and bowels,) will not at all accord with me in my views, I regard our present epidemic in all classes to be more nearly allied to Tetanus than to Cholera. The last is surely a misnomer, as applied to a disease, the principal characteristic of which is an entire want of x^\r] in the evacuations, &c. He then briefly mentions, that the disease was occurring in His Majesty's 65th regiment and 22nd dragoons, and proceeds:— In these corps, the disease makes its appearance.
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