History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe / Illustrated by numerous official and other documents, explanatory of the nature, treatment, and prevention of the malady.

Francis Bisset Hawkins

Date:: 1831

Credit: History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe / Illustrated by numerous official and other documents, explanatory of the nature, treatment, and prevention of the malady. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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of the spasmodic cholera a deficiency of oxygen in the circulating blood, or, as some chemists will have it, a want of decarbonization, as evinced by the dark colour of the blood when then drawn. This may explain the great difficulty experienced in respiration, and the extreme weakness. Pray excuse any incorrectness that may appear in this letter, written as it is in the hurry of the moment, but not under the less anxiety that England may never have to mourn for thousands sent to the grave, while science herself has little more to offer than a vain, painful regret.

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