A practical treatise on the history, prevention, and treatment of epidemic cholera, designed both for the profession and the people / [Daniel Drake].

Daniel Drake

Date:: 1832

Credit: A practical treatise on the history, prevention, and treatment of epidemic cholera, designed both for the profession and the people / [Daniel Drake]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$a? . : pen 135 since it diverts attention from measures of less doubt- ful utility, because they are really practicable.’ The able and experienced. editor of the Medico- Chirurgical Review, inclines to the opinion, that even sale, in. ‘Europe as sin Asia, which arises, he eee \, sudd sad in the latter than the fc he Io. per country. . As to cupping a eching, the writers on ‘Chol- it 0 Fein of the blood- less state af the dans hapeanest often be performed. When practicable, however, blood should be drawn from the epigastrium. But cupping without scari- fication, may do good... My respectable friend, Dr the Navy;1 many years ago found great advantage 1 of that gentleman, I have often directed it with ad- vantage in similar cases. | ae Emetics. As peop dp sptinaiecd many of tei worst cases of Epidemic Cholera are not attended with vomiting. That symptom, indeed, seems on the whole to be less violent, than we are accustomed to see it in the endemic of this country. We need not be surprized, then, to learn that emetics have been, administered both in Asia and: Europe, with decided advantage. To be efficacious, they s should be: exhibited, early, and the more atimeaneS: 9 mote be preferred. - If$