Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / by William Stevens.

Date:
1853
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Credit: Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / by William Stevens. 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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    found its way from Edinburgh to Glasgow, to Bothwell, to Dumfries, to Kelso, and other towns in Scotland, in which the new pestilence was producing the most fatal effects. It was, therefore, evident to every human being who possessed a knowledge of the real origin and the true nature of the Cholera poison, that it would soon find its way not only into London, hut also to almost every town and village of England and Ireland. I had, in 1849, a clear recollection of the evil that had been done by the medical members of the Central Board, in 1832. The knowledge of this evil led me to believe that unless means were used to undo the mischief they had then done, that the Cholera, in 1848-9, would be far more fatal in pro- portion to the number of attacks, than it had been in 1831-2. I believed also that the republication in the “ Medical Times,” of the returns from the City to the Central Board, would be one means of con- tributing to the fatal results of the bad practice that was and is the sad offspring of the ignorance of the medical members of the so-called Board of Health. When Mr. Ross’s cholera tables were shown to me by Dr. Turley, of Worcester, in the end of No- vember, 1848, asserting a loss of about seventy-seven ]>er cent, under my saline treatment, and only four- teen per cent, loss under the saline practice of Mr.
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