Volume 2
Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / [Thomas Molison].
- Molison, Thomas, -1835 or 1836.
- Date:
- 1832
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / [Thomas Molison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![My stay at Newcastle was limited to the period of eleven days. Not that X had accomplished all that I wished ; but circumstances, into which it is unne¬ cessary to enter, constrained me to depart ; nor do I wish to conceal, that the severe bodily and mental fatigue, to which I was exposed, might have had their influence upon my decision. X make these statements, that it may the more readily be understood, that I have no intention of writing a regular treatise on the epidemic. My sole purpose is, to furnish some of the results of the limited experience which I have enjoyed, and which, however imperfect, has served to afford me information which may not, perhaps, be destitute of importance. X pro¬ pose to give an accurate account of the symptoms, such as X observed them, and of the treatment I found most efficacious ; to subjoin a few remarks, which seem to be of practical utility ; and to finish with the details of a few of the more interesting cases. I was very speedily convinced, that this disease is totally different from any other that X had previously witnessed. Some of its milder symptoms are common to it, and to the indigenous Cholera ; but, on the whole, the two diseases are widely and specifically distinct. It has been stated, that there are three stages in this complaint, viz. ] st9 one Premonitory; Qdly9 a stage of Collapse ; and odly, the stage of Reaction. A very few remarks will suffice for the first of these. Ihe stage of collapse is that which tridy constitutes the disease, and therefore demands our principal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31873522_0002_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
