History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe ... / by Bisset Hawkins.

Date:
1831
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    f ten minutes, becoming in the end faint and ‘ rare. The same phenomena, though in a ‘ less remarkable degree, were observed on ‘ another occasion only, but so long as six or ‘ seven hours after the termination of the ‘ symptoms of the disease.’ These muscular contractions after death were also occasionally observed in the Cho- lera of the East Indies. For this remark, and for the above case, we are indebted to the able analysis given of the Russian offi- cial documents in the Edinburgh Medical Journal of July, in this year. A very com- prehensive review will there be found of the work which Professor Lichtenstadt, of St. Petersburg!], has recently framed from the official reports*. So early as August, 1823, the Supreme Medical Council, alarmed at the near ap- Die Asiatische Cholera in Russland, &c. Berlin, 8vo. 1831.