The common sense of cholera / by a practical practitioner.
- James Hutchison Stirling
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The common sense of cholera / by a practical practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![yob some live; and, in the interest of these and of all, we are not to slacken in our efforts, nor bate one jot of energy or skill. How then shall we direct these efforts—apply that energy—exhibit that skill?: In other words, by what means shall we rally from the collapse, or syncope, that is here before us? Why, plainly, by no other than those used in the syncope of other haemorrhages, but modified by the peculiarities of this. What, then, are these? They, are: Prevention of the continuance or recurrence of 3 the cause; rest in the horizontal posture; stimu--jr* lants; and transfusion. The prevention of the continuance or recurrence: of the cause is manifestly a measure absolutely ne- cessary, and is to be accomplished by perseverance^ in such manner as the particular case admits, in the use of mercurials; which are further indicated tc stimulate the liver; for, though the gall-bladder it: distended with bile, no portion of that fluid is ex- fc; creted, and the carbonized and dark materials arc are allowed to accumulate in the system, to the augmen tation of every other mischief. Before finally leaving the question of calomel however, we shall permit ourselves a few remar] deprecatory of objections. For the inefficiency o calomel in cholera has been stoutly maintained' especially by the advocates of what is styled th< saline method of treatment: and that the follower of that system should object to calomel is hardly t be wondered at, for the main function of the calome ends where that of the salines begins. In the ac M](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22375247_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
