An inaugural dissertation on cholera : submitted to the consideration of the Honourable Robert Smith, Provost, and the Regents of the University of Maryland : for the degree of Doctor of Physic / by Robert W. Harper.

  • Harper, Robert W.
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1815
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on cholera : submitted to the consideration of the Honourable Robert Smith, Provost, and the Regents of the University of Maryland : for the degree of Doctor of Physic / by Robert W. Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sydenham defines the disease an immoderate vomit- ing, and discharge of vitiated humors downwards with great pain and difficulty. But does not mention the characteristic mark, viz. the vomiting and purg- ing of bile. Cullen, in his Nosology, thus describes it: Humo- res plerumque hiliosi vomitus, ejusdem simul ejectio frequens; anxietas; tormina; surarum s])asmata. Cleghorn merely mentions the disease, and refers for the method of cure to Hippocrates. Gregory describes it, Ingens simul vomitus et alvi- nus fluxus Cholera vocatur. Oritur a validse tubi in- testinorum irritatione, ubi nulla obstructio in eo est; plerumque a falle nimio, aut nimis secri, undc nomen habet. Dr. John B. Davidge describes the disease in his Nosology, page 96, Gen. xxxviii. Alvi Fluxus sp. 1. Humores hiliosi vel porracei vomitus, et simul ejus- dem dejectio frequens; anxietas tormina; surarum spasmata; in infantibus febris. SYMPTOMS. The attack of this disease is most always sudden, tbere is nausea and vomiting, the bowels are affected with severe gripings, and frequent stools which first are watery as in diarrhsea; but in a few hours the mat- ter discharged both upwards and downwards, appears to be pure bile. Now the vomiting is increased, and the gripings also are considerably increased, and in consequence of the great irritation from the passing bile, the bowels are excited to spasmodic contractions, and this spasm is often communicated to the muscles of the abdomen and extremities.