The nature of cholera investigated / by John George French.

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1835
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    NATURE OF CHOLERA INVESTIGATED. In 1832, the author published the following view of the Nature of Cholera*. That the alimentary canal becomes subjected to a process which altogether supersedes digestion, and, by this process a large quantity of fluid is produced as an excretion, which rapidly diminishes the bulk of the blood ; with the mechanism of this production we are as yet unacquainted, That this constitutes the disease. That in some instances the disease continues its progress till the death of the patient ; but, in the very large majority of cases when left to nature, the * Letter to the Board of Health. London, Rivington ; 1832, B