Cholera morbus / translated from the German [of 'Bemerkungen über die Cholera Morbus'], by George Cox ... with the treatment of the cholera morbus by Dr. Russell and Dr. Barry.
- Jencken, Ferdinand Johann, 1786-1865.
- Date:
- 1832
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cholera morbus / translated from the German [of 'Bemerkungen über die Cholera Morbus'], by George Cox ... with the treatment of the cholera morbus by Dr. Russell and Dr. Barry. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1] without producing a re-action in the system. If even exanthemata produce considerable disease, though they be themselves but the effect of atmospheric air in its ordinary state, surely, then, the re-action of nature in appropriating to itself the newly developed principle in the organiza- tion of the human frame, must produce discase still more violent. The similarity which cholera bears to many former and present epidemics, is very striking, when we compare it with the: black death, the English sweating sickness, which also extended itself through Germany. In them the symptoms were venous congestion, anxiety, syncope, thirst, burning sensation in the abdomen, immoderate secretion of fluid by the skin—and this occurs in the cholera through the mucus membrane of the bowels. Promotion of sweat at that time also was the principal indication of cure. In the Hungarian disease, “ the black death,” the symp- toms were heart-burn, violent colic, head-ache, and exhaustion. Dysentery followed the above symp- toms, and a bilious purging was critical. Aroma- tics and sudorifics were the remedies. The Yellow Fever, as described by Matthei, Brunel, Reider, and others, bears obvious resem-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33492360_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
