The nature of cholera investigated / [John George French].

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The nature of cholera investigated / [John George French]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oe. tinction between the two kinds of antidotes, 2ndly Divesting the second kind of antidote of undue in- fluence on our minds; since we see on Christison’s authority, that those antidotes which do not change the chemical nature of poisons, possess no greater effect as remedies (though the best we have) than the principles of therapeutics would teach us to expect ; and that therefore all therapeutical means, having the same beneficial tendency, are equally entitled to the name of antidotes. Nature has yet to be explored for that great desi- deratum, a chemical antidote: for Cholera; no ana- logous discovery has even as yet been made, unless we admit the antidote of vaccination to the small-pox, the discovery of which, was as little likely to be ac- complished a@ priori, as that of an antidote for Cho- lera; but if we cannot alter the nature of the poison, and therefore prevent its deleterious effects, it is the more necessary that we enquire into the most appro- priate physiological means for remedying the effects when they are produced. We must here revert to what has already been ad- vanced, viz, that the poison of Cholera has a direct tendency to paralyse the heart, and that in order to avert the immediately fatal effect of such an opera- tion, the physiological condition of the patient be- comes altered: the blood becomes diminished in quan- tity, and altered in quality ; one measure being thus
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