A sketch of a popular and a novel treatment for diarrhoea, dysentery, and English and Asiatic cholera : with illustrative cases of the diseases / by Edmund Skiers.

Date:
1849
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Credit: A sketch of a popular and a novel treatment for diarrhoea, dysentery, and English and Asiatic cholera : with illustrative cases of the diseases / by Edmund Skiers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRliFACE. Vll general good, I knew not; but felt them, however, as if estranged from me, though they may still be mine, from not having been read, looked at, or inquired into. The novelty of my position, the Cholera being rife, delaying not, but striking immediately, and might afflict the mass in a few moments, I beg excuse for tendering to immediate pubhcity my views, founded on long practical experience ; and I believe I want no other title, possessing such to offer, with the honour, too, of being awarded, unsolicited, the Cholera medal for the Cholera of Paris, 1832! Embodied in this sketch will be found by cases whether a lively interest has not been kept up by me with regard to investigation, preven- tion, and treatment incidental to Cholera; for which 1 beg to acknowledge benefits from Doctors M. C. Robinson, then in Paris, now in Canada; Vassal, Foy, Fabre, Sophiano, Poulo, &c. But with regard spe- cially to diarrhoea, dysentery, sporadic cholera, I beg to appropriate, and feel justly indebted to my patients, English, Americans, French, Germans, Poles, Russians, Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Israelites, who sub- mitted to my treatment, reposing implicit confidence : and as a tribute to them, I offer my best thanks, to whom, as I have said above, this dedication is justly due, from their ever obliged, EDMUND SKIERS, M.D., Graduate of the Faculty of Paris; Matriculated Member of Edinburgh ; Member of the Royal College of Sur- geons, London ; Licentiate of the Hall, and Member of the Apothecaries' Society, London ; Honoured by the Royal Medal for Cholera, in Paris, 1832 ; Member and Correspondent of Medical Societies, &c.