An address to the chairman & members of the house-committee of the London Hospital, on the subject of cholera / by Sir William Blizard.
- William Blizard
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An address to the chairman & members of the house-committee of the London Hospital, on the subject of cholera / by Sir William Blizard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![to the consideration of direct means of oxygenation of the blood, and of counter- action of fatal carbonic ascendency. The results of analyses of blood deprived of oxygen, should not be adduced in oppo- sition to this doctrine ; as oxygen, by its due presence in the blood, might have proved a vinculum of the union of principles in the blood, the characters of which, in their decomposed state, might not have been recognised in their state of combination. Still, by what means the blood becomes deprived of oxygen, if such be ever the case, M ould remain a secret, never, perhaps, to be unfolded. Suggestions, however, relating to inquiry for light on the cause of Cholera, cannot be foreign to an address on the duties of an Hospital, on the present occasion. In the histories of cases of Cholera, termi- nating in recovery or death, the following, with other important particulars, ought to be recorded :—sex, age, genera] articles of diet, ordinary action of bowels, employment, situation of dwelling, supposed cause of disease, symptoms, remedies used, event,—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21301426_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
