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Hyperanthraxis; or the cholera of Sunderland / [William Reid Clanny].

  • William Reid Clanny
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hyperanthraxis; or the cholera of Sunderland / [William Reid Clanny]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    145 portant cases of cholera, dated 22d February (same date as above), concludes in the follow- ing words, which I transcribe from the Cholera Gazette, No. 4, for 3d March, 1832. « Already the investigating spirit of your estimable fellow-countrymen has been directed towards the alteration of the blood, and the chemical nature of the dejections, and they have established the fact, that all that is deficient in the former is found to exist in the latter.” From every dissection of epidemic cholera which I have witnessed, as well as the evi- dence of written accounts, I am satisfied that the restrained state of the circulation of the blood, and its consequent state of vitiation, as explained in a former part of this work, con- tribute to the enlargement of the blood-vessels of the lungs, the liver, the stomach, the in- testines, and brain, and, generally speaking, the centre of the circulatory system, whilst the extreme branches thereof are deprived of their usual quantity of fluids, with the notable exception of the capillaries of the