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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cii dilation comes on from the beginnings nnd the patient dies without a struo-srle ‘ Tllis has frequently manifested itself as the ‘ prevailing- type, and almost all die who are £ attacked by it; but fortunately it has not ‘ lasted long; the disease either disappearing ‘ or assuming, during its further progress, a ‘ wilder or less formidable character. W hen medical aid is early administered, ‘ and when the constitution is otherwise ‘ healthy, the recovery from an attack of ‘ Cholera is so wonderfully rapid, as perhaps * to be decisive of the disease being essentially ‘ unconnected with any organic lesion. In natives of this country, especially, in whom ‘ there is ordinarily very little tendency to inflammatory action, the recovery from Cho- lera is generally so speedy and perfect, that ‘ can on]y be compared to recovery from ‘ syncope, cholic, and diseases of a similar ‘ nature; but in Europeans, in whom there is