Papers relative to the disease called cholera spasmodica in India, now prevailing in the North of Europe.

Date:
1831
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Credit: Papers relative to the disease called cholera spasmodica in India, now prevailing in the North of Europe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    It is to be observed, that though sometimes bleeding o o was followed by immediate sleep, restoration of pulse and natural warmth, and a speedy solution of the disease, it appears never to have been solely relied upon, but to have been followed or accompanied more or less by the other plans of practice above mentioned. The Board of Health has drawn up the above statement for the purpose of diffusing* more generally a knowledge of the symptoms of the disease as it appeared in India, and of the plans of treatment there adopted. This, together with the descriptions of the same disease as it prevailed in Moscow, and is raging at St. Petersburg!], is deemed sufficient for general information. With the history of the disease, the dissections, and mode of treatment in India and Russia before them, medical practitioners in this country will be prepared for its first appearance. So much knowledge and intelli- gence are diffused among them, that until more uniformly successful modes of practice are devised, the Board wishes to leave their minds unbiassed. At the same time, all communications from those by whom the disease may be seen will be received with great attention; and they are invited to give the result of their observations to the Board, the Members of which will be happy at all times to advise with their medical brethren on the subject. In the name of the Board, Henry Halford, President. c