Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In addition to tlie eighty-one individuals already referred to, we had about nineteen cases in the prison, where the patients were either attacked with the disease, and got into a state of asphyxia in the cold wards of the prison during the night, or where the stomach was so irritable in the first stage that it could not retain the stronger salts. In almost every one of those cases the disease assumed a most ma- lignant character. These were all treated with the energetic non-purgative saline remedies; and in the nineteen malignant cases to which I now refer, we had eighteen recoveries, and only one death: conse- quently, the total number of patients, who were all evidently under the influence of the cholera poi- son, was about one hundred, yet in those cases where we trusted almost entirely to the saline practice, we had only three deaths, and ninety-seven recoveries. In corroboration of the above statement, I will insert here the following letter from Mr. Wakefield, which was published in the Medical Gazette for April 28, 1832. In further illustration of the treatment which has been adopted in the cases of cholera which have occurred at Cold-Bath Fields, we insert the following communication from Mr. Wakefield, the intelligent and highly respectable practitioner who has the me- dical charge of the prisoners.’]—Editor of the Ga- zette.