Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea : better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera, as treated in the Royal Free Hospital during the years 1832, 1833, 1834, 1848, & 1854.

  • William Marsden
Date:
1871
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Credit: Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea : better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera, as treated in the Royal Free Hospital during the years 1832, 1833, 1834, 1848, & 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I MALIGNANT DIARRHOEA. 37 drausrilt lias been taken, stools of a black gelatinous nature, resembling half-melted pitch, will pass off; and, in the majority of cases, no further medical aid is re- quired. During the existence of this stage of the disease, we should rigidly enjoin ab- stinence from all iBiuids, beyond a suffi- ciency to moisten the mouth; for if copious draughts of barley-water, toast and water, or any other fluid, be taken, vomiting, in aU probability, will continue, and preclude the possibility of either the mercury or the draught having their desired effects. It is well to order the patient small doses of simple effervescing mixture, or soda-water, about two table-spoonfuls to be taken with the calomel, and repeated every hour, so long as the circumstances of the case require. The effervescing saline has a powerful tendency to tranquil- lize that irritable state of the stomach, which generally accompanies the progress of this stage of the disorder. D
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