Practical observations on the prevailing epidemic called cholera, ... Pt. 1 / by James Keir.

Date:
1848
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    PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE PREVAILING EPIDEMIC CALLED CHOLERA. At a time when there is so strong reason to fear that our country is on the verge of another visitation of the disease improperly called Asiatic or Epidemic Cholera, it may be of some use to the Public in general, and particularly to the more humble classes of society, to point out, and to endea- vour to re-impress on the minds of those whom it may con- cern, the nature of the disease to which the community is likely to be exposed, and the precautionary and preventive method which experience and common sense has taught us during a former visitation, to be the means under the Divine permission, most likely to enable those who may be un- consciously exposed to the action of its cause, to repel and ward off its influence, or to struggle against its attack. I have said that the disease on which I am now writing has been impi'operly called Asiatic or Epidemic Cholera, because, in the ordinary disease of this country, and of Europe generally, or in Cholera Morbus, as it appears first to have been called by our celebrated Sydenham, one of the most prominent symptoms is, a very unusual secretion of bile, or choler, which being poured out by the gall ducts into the intestines, and from thence pumped up into the stomach,