A treatise on the public health, climate, hygeine [sic], and prevailing diseases, of Bengal and the North-West Provinces / By Kenneth Mackinnon.
- MacKinnon, Kenneth
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the public health, climate, hygeine [sic], and prevailing diseases, of Bengal and the North-West Provinces / By Kenneth Mackinnon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![how probably produced—Effect of the disease upon the heart considered—The state of the blood, of the circulation in the lungs, and of the animal heat—Author’s reason for considering that all these symptoms depend directly on nen'ous shock— Tlie cold sweats appear to be further evidence of this—Cause of the coldness more fully considered—These views not pro- fessed to be original^ being nearly those of Twining, Annesley, and G. Hamilton Bell—Question considered how and why the nervous power becomes weakened—Effects of malaria and other poisons somewhat resemble the symptoms of cholera— Question of a generated human virus again discussed—Au- thor’s reason for believing the disease does not spread by con- tagion—Nor by other known laws and sources of disease— The belief expressed that it may yet be found to depend up- on electricity—This opinion confessed to be purely hypothetical, but reasons given for entertaining it—Theory of the disease depending on abraded epithelium—Professor Webb’s theory of sulphuretted hydrogen and impaired endosmose—Notice of Mr. Parkes’ late work on cholera—Contains original views of the morbid anatomy—Lightness and non-crepitation of the lungs—Morbid appearances in the heart—Physical properties of cholera blood, given by Mr. Parkes—State of the liver— Of the spleen—Mr. Parkes’ analysis of cholera discharges— Summary of his theory of the disease—Remarks thereon— Practical observations on the pre-disposing causes of cholera— Remote cause not usually very active—Requiring the co- operation of pre-dis])osing ones such as food, accommodation, and ventilation—At other times the remote cause seems more active—Classes of society most subject to the disease—Ques- tion how diet can pre-dis])ose to cholera—Effect of some pur- gatives—Pre-disposing causes among European soldiei-s—Bad ventilation and filthy localities seem to harbour the remote cause 2f)j to 282 Treatment of ciioi,f.ra.—.Many cases beyond the power of me- dical art, but others curable if attacked early with a bold hand— Comments on Mr. Searle’s views of treatment ; believed to be dangerous because tlie discharges arc considered salutary ef- forts—And the use of o|)inin is condemned—The great indica- tion is to stop the first discharges—Best done by opium—Au- .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2870874x_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
