Report on the chemical pathology of the malignant cholera : containing analyses of the blood, dejections, &c. of patients labouring under that disease in Newcastle and London, &c. &c. &c. / by W.B. O'Shaughnessy.

  • O'Shaughnessy, William Brooke, 1809-1889.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Report on the chemical pathology of the malignant cholera : containing analyses of the blood, dejections, &c. of patients labouring under that disease in Newcastle and London, &c. &c. &c. / by W.B. O'Shaughnessy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    pended, and when stinuilants, however varied or energetic, fail to re-excite the circulation, I Avoidd not iiesitate to ivjact some ounces of warm water into the veins. I would also, without apprehension, dissolve in that water the mild innocuous salts which nature herself is accustomed to combine with the human blood, and which in Cholera arc deficient. Let it be rememhered, that if this experi- ment be not practised, death is inevitably close at hand, and that the proposal does not rest on idle or frivolous opinions. It should also be remembered, that this mode of medication has, in many a desperate disease, been prac- tised Avith success, and that by some of the most cautious and experienced physicians in the Avorld. I beg, hoAvever, that I may not he misunderstood, so as to be thought to recommend this ])rocecding indiscri- minately. On the other hand, I Avould deem that practi- tioner little better than a homicide Avho Avould jicrform the operation Avithout the sanction of a numerous con- sultation. With respect to the treatment of the fever stage, I Avould expect much benefit from the freipicntly repeated use of the neutral salts by the mouth or by encmata, and dissolved in large (piantities of tepid AV'ater. I should prefer the sulijoined combination,* as it imitates to a certain extent the composition of the materials in Avhich the blood is presumed to be deficient. Besides meeting the che- mical indication, these remedies AA’ill also assist the cure by their aperient properties, &c. * Take of Phosphate of Soda.. .. ten grains. Muriate of Soda ten grains. Carbonate of Soda .... five grains. Sulphate of Soda ten grains. Dissolve in six ounces of water. The mixture to be repeated every second hour.
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