The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French.

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1854
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    ground for this assertion that its mortality is great, and but little modified under every conceivable variety of treatment. It should, however, be borne in mind, that the reason why other diseases are not so fatal is, not because we are better informed of their nature and treatment, but because they are less severe. Death, at least, wears no mask in his approach in the form of Cholera. It is, at all events, obvious that the heart itself is not performing its functions properly, and that the failure of the circulation constitutes the danger of the malady. It is commonly believed that this state of the circulation is owing to the diarrhoea which attends it, and when death supervenes before the occurrence of diarrhoea, it is said that the alimentary canal already contains the excreted fluid, and that the effect is the same on the circulation as in the case of internal haemorrhage. But whence does the diarrhoea arise ] It has been gravely asserted to proceed from the use of unripe plums, and articles of diet of all kinds reputed to be indigestible; but as experience has clearly shown that it attacks persons who never partake of these things, and that its victims are selected with