Letters on the cholera / by Whitelaw Ainslie.

  • Ainslie, Whitelaw, 1767-1837.
Date:
1832
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    army) could think of, laudanum, am?Homa, md cam- phor; he had besides used warm frictions and stimulat- ing embrocations; nothing could stay the, vomiting; and we expected that nature could not much longer;; hold out. , Jt at length occurred to me, that perhaps' some irritating acrimony or other, required correct- ing ; and I gave him, though it was with the utmost difficulty that he could swallow.itir a, full dose of* calcined magnesia, noi in milk,* (that would have added to the mischief by its tendencyr to. become acidj) butin a little tepid water: he kept it down> saoni after fell asleep, and in the morning had no; complaint but weakness. From that day I hesi-., tated not, in every case of Cholera I had occasion to treat, whether in India, or afterwards, in England, to administer, i7i the first ^VwMwce, an antacid, to neutralize the offending cause, (whatever might become necessaiy afterwards to warm the: frame,) for cause I concluded there must be^ which kept up-, so violent and exhausting an aitd- vl,, can safely say^ with continued advantage.] ofiao onO A short time after my return to Europe, I think ? in 1819, on learning that the malady had become a; devastating scourge' in .fttie ;Upp(^r/ provinces r©f< Hindoostan, and on reflecting on what I had-sedn; in that.countij, I had no dpubt .b.ut that the disonr der whicK I;, fea(l witnesaed.iioclSlft,, was,, at that period, passing : .gr<stdmUyA/<K(m\ tM ^(madio.intei • Nd greater errcfr carflje commifttfa, than giving magnesia in milk in cases of Chqler^y.^ ,2«,snorlqA li;jij3/j.'< c'r/w-.riiooO 3'.)^