A report of the method and results of the treatment for the malignant cholera, by small and frequently repeated doses of calomel : with an enquiry into the nature and origin of the complaint, with a view to a more just appreciation of the means for its prevention and cure, with numerous illustrative cases / by Joseph Ayre.

  • Joseph Ayre
Date:
1823
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Credit: A report of the method and results of the treatment for the malignant cholera, by small and frequently repeated doses of calomel : with an enquiry into the nature and origin of the complaint, with a view to a more just appreciation of the means for its prevention and cure, with numerous illustrative cases / by Joseph Ayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    English cholera was given ; and histories of cases were detailed, as met with in that epidemic, in il- lustration of the reality and source of the collapse, and as proving that, under all its varying degrees of intensity, it was plainly the same complaint; for that there existed in all cases, as its primary condition, and as essentially present in it, an interruption or cessation of the secretion of the bile. The account which I drew up of the re- markable symptoms of the cholera of this country in that year, and of my views concerning it, preceded, in point of time, my knowledge of the existence of the Asiatic disease; and when I did hear of it, and discovered the intimate resemblance of their symptoms, I could not re- sist the conviction of both being one and the same disease. The coincidence of the Indian complaint and the English epidemic breaking out first in I8I7, afforded a presumption also of their identity; and at a later period I was led, and might, indeed, be said to have been flattered into a belief of this fact, by the resident English phy- sicians of Moscow*, who first encountered the dis- * See a letter dated from Moscow, in December, ] 830, and published in the Edinburgh Journal for April, 1831, by a phy- sician who had the superintendence of several cholera hospitals in that city. I had studied, observes this writer, what the Indian writers had written on cholera, as far as my library afforded me the means, and, through the Edinburgh Medical Journal, knew their practice ; but my notions on the disease were chiefly drawn from my own experience, and the close study for the greatest