A report of the method and results of the treatment for the malignant cholera, by small and frequently repeated doses of calomel : with an enquiry into the nature and origin of the complaint ... / by Joseph Ayre.

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1833
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    CHAP. II. ON THE REMOTE CAUSES OF THE MALIGNANT CHOLERA. The Malignant or Asiatic Cholera, described in the last chapter, has now visited and traversed nearly every region of the habitable globe. In the whole progress of its course, it has been re- garded by the local authorities of different countries as an infectious disease, and been met and op- posed by the strictest regulations of quarantine; yet in no instance has it been arrested by them. The question, therefore, naturally presenting itself to our notice is, whether this failure has arisen from an imperfection pertaining to the restrictions used, or from something in the nature of the disease itself, which necessarily rendered them useless. The question is not a mere professional one, requiring professional knowledge to under- stand and to decide upon, but is open to be settled by the evidence of facts, and may be rendered intelligible to all. Neither is it an unimportant one, since it involves the grave consideration of the means to be employed in future for arresting it, and which cannot fail to have the most important influence, for good or for evil, on the communities they are designed to protect. The question, in
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