A treatise on the symptoms and cure of cholera / by Thomas Molison.
- Molison, Thomas, -1835 or 1836.
- Date:
- 1832
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the symptoms and cure of cholera / by Thomas Molison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tutionai excitement may be observed, and that this, in fiji is the primary and most important of the series of diseaJ actions which constitute the spasmodic cholera. Upon t] I have only to remark, that I have never been able to det|| any appearance of this general excitement, but, on the c|] trary, I have always, from the commencement, seen a mar&j tendency to debility and sinking. Since the above was written, I have visited Musselburji where I observed a marked difference in the premoniMi symptoms. Those affected in this stage were going abon and even out of doors. All of them had the pulse remarkaji increased both in strength and quickness ; face flushed, n il suffused red eyes. The tongue was invariably loaded wit i dirty brown looking fur. I observed also a fisherman wh a wife had lately died of cholera. He had purging, wit * strong quick pulse, flushed face, suffused eyes, and f 1 tongue. We really could not say whether he was inebriaM or not; he could give us no account of his feelings, all appeared quite oppressed. For the removal of the Diarrhoea, which in most ca$i exists for several days before any marked symptoms i sinking occur, we would advise, for an adult, from forty , sixty drops of laudanum, in the form of an injection of tin ^ or four tablespoonfuls of gruel. Should this not be sufficie^ he should, in three or four hours, take eight or ten gra|; of Dover’s powder, or the injection, if necessary, may ' repeated. The patient must eat only of the lightest f« 1 and in very small quantities ; his drinks must be bland, a ! only in mouthfuls. Should there be no excitement of t; action of the heart and arteries, I would advise a tab ■ spoonful of brandy and hot water. Should the pulse • strong and full, it would be most injurious to give brand and it would be much more advisable to take some ounc - of blood. The Stage of Collapse usually comes on suddenl i and not unfrequently the first attack occurs in the cbUfl f of the night. Severq purging is often the first symptom. I he evacuj tions are very copious, and, for a time, may be frequent a*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22384820_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
