Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / [Thomas Molison].

  • Molison, Thomas, -1835 or 1836.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / [Thomas Molison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to communicate the heat with better effect than any thing* else that I had employed. It would be a bad case indeed, in which this continued application of hot friction did not produce some salutary effect. This process being* once in steady operation, the internal use of hot fluids should immediately be com¬ menced. Larg*e quantities of hot water, either pure, or, what is preferable, mixed with mustard or salt, (in the proportion of one or two tablespoonfuls to the pint,) as warm as the patient can swallow it, are now to be administered. When, from the presence of locked-jaw, or other cause, swallowing* is impeded, one or two pints of the fluid should promptly be intro¬ duced, by means of a hollow tube, or the stomach pump. Speedy vomiting may, in this way, almost to a certainty, be produced ; and, if necessary, the usual mechanical means for exciting vomiting may be had recourse to. I am the more minute in this parti¬ cular, as I esteem this remedy of the very first importance. My firm belief is, that if vomiting can be by any means excited, the patient may recover, however desperate his condition. Perhaps there is no stimulus to the frame that at all equals in effect the action of full vomiting. Besides, a large quantity of cool fluid is thrown off, which, I think, in the stomach must tend to keep up the state of collapse. A similar effect results from the injection of stimu¬ lating fluids into the bowels, as hot water, with the addition of either mustard or salt, or both conjoined, and this ought never to be neglected. The repetition of these remedies is to be regulated by the obstinacy of
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