Cholera : lecture delivered at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania / by Ad. Lippe ; December 8th, 1865.

  • Lippe, Adolph von, 1812-1888.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Cholera : lecture delivered at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania / by Ad. Lippe ; December 8th, 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    u tbe interna] surface of the body is very cold the patient still complains of an internal burning heat. The stage of col- lapse may last from two to twelve hours. In a majority of cases it ends in death. In the more fortunate minority re- action sets in, marked by returning warmth and re-estab- lished secretions. It is to be noted that, the more rapidly fatal the case, the earlier the collapse occurs, and the less abundant are the evacuations. In the most terribly rapid cases, which destroy life in a few hours, there are almost no evacuations. It is evident, therefore, that death in cholera does not ensue from the drain on the system resulting from the evacuations, and consequently mere astringent remedies will not cure cholera. During a cholera epidemic diarrhoea is very prevalent. It almost always precedes an attack, and, doubtless, predisposes it. Instant attention should therefore be paid to such premonitions. In like manner slight cramps are often felt, and they should also be regarded as premoni- tions, and medical advice should be sought for at once. A vast number of remedies and modes of allopathic treatment have enjoyed ephemeral reputation, have been lauded, rejected, revived, and again rejected. If at the close of an epidemic in any place, methods and medicines acquire an undue reputation, it is because the disease is usually at that period when it is less malignant and fatal. Whatever medicine will cure one patient, or is most applicable in one epidemic, in one locality, may be found inefficient in another patient, in another epidemic, and in another locality. The Allopathic School having no law of cure to guide them, and unable to individualize, still hope to find the sijecific for the disease. How far they have been successful, and the relative results of the different practices, we will now show by the comparative results of the first epidemic of 1832 and 1833. In Vienna there were 4,500 patients treated allopathically, of whom 1,360 died. There were 581 treated homoeopathi- cally, of whom 49 died. This gave 41 per cent, under the