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. XIII. Remarks on the Morbid Changes of the Fluids in Cho- lera, on the Susceptibility of Individuals, and on the Treatment. Communicated in a Letter to Dr. Todd of Brighton, from Mr. R. Herrmann of Moscow. [Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1831, p. 285.] 1. The fluids voided by stool and vomiting contained, besides water, some acetic acid, a small quantity of osmazome, salivary matter, butyric acid, and mucus. They resemble very much gastric juice, but do not con- tain any free muriatic acid. In the alvine discharges, the quantity of butyric acid is greater than in the fluid voided by vomiting; and they contain, besides, some albumen, a fetid, oily matter, and a small admixture of bile. 2. The bile of the cholera patients contains the same ingredients as that of healthy persons: it is, however, more concentrated. 3. The secretion of urine ceases almost entirely during the disease. The urine which first reappears, when the disease has been overcome, contains less urea, and less of the other solid ingredients, than the urine of healthy persons. 4. The blood undergoes considerable changes during the cholera. According to Mr. Herrmann, the blood of healthy persons contains carbonic and acetic acids, in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21020942_0266.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
