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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![No. IX. On the Treatment of the Indian Cholera. [Extract of a Letter from India, inserted in the London Medical Gazette, vol. ii. p. 711.] Our old enemy, the cholera, has not committed its accustomed deadly ravages this year, and, it is to he hoped, is wearing itself out. I have not had occasion to resort to my recipe for these three months past, which I certainly have found both an antidote and cure. You may probably know, or have heard of it. It is the kyapoota (cajepooa~) oil: at all events, you possibly remember the virtues formerly ascribed to it for rheu- matic affections, though, I believe, not then administered internally. I have, however, used it with great success in cases of cholera: ten to fifteen drops to children, and thirty to fifty to adults, merely swallowed in a wine- glass of warm water. Some of the faculty called it a quack nostrum, who, I have reason to believe, have since used it with benefit. I accidentally introduced it about two years ago, but take no merit beyond the successful application of it, whilst the population were dying by hundreds about me, having discovered a re- cital of its efficacy in an old Bengal paper, which induced me to try the experiment; and some of the recoveries were remarkable from the last stage of the disorder, and even after the usual applications had failed from the Materia Medica.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21020942_0257.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
