Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera [as treated in the London General Institution (Royal Free Hospital), during the years 1832, 1833, and 1834] / [William Marsden].

  • William Marsden
Date:
1848
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Credit: Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera [as treated in the London General Institution (Royal Free Hospital), during the years 1832, 1833, and 1834] / [William Marsden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -MALIGNANT DIARRHCEA. success in treatment, depends on the sto- mach and bowels being occupied by a more healthy fluid than that deposited in these organs through the diseased action. Suppose after the administration of the above plan, no restoration of pulse takes place, and the patient continues rapidly to sink ; what is to be done ? The answer is evident; that having failed to restore the volume of blood by the action of the lac- teal absorbents, a vein must be opened, and a fluid corresponding in character as nearly as possible to the serum of the blood, must be injected in sufficient quan- tity to fully restore the pulse at the wrist; at the same time endeavouring to arrest further exudation from the capillaries of the intestines, by astringents carefully ad- ministered ; opium and bark are the best, and this is the only period from the begin- ning of the disease, at which opium or as- tringents are indicated. Should, however, the diarrhoea continue, the circulation will, in proportion to that action, again decline, which renders this the most important
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