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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    afforded by the fifth chapter of this Essay, and to those of the Appendix, where, from the great number and severity of the cases, the treatment will be seen to have been fully tested, and to have been in the highest degree success- ful. In the details of the cases into which I have entered, I have thought it proper to notice the causes especially which rendered some of them fatal; for I hold it to be due from a medicine which claims to be efficient, to be so in all where its power is not counteracted by previous disease, or by circumstances per- taining to the mode of its exhibition, or by others which are obvious and avoidable. If there be cases of so malignant a type as to resist the medicine, although commenced early after the developement of the collapse, I have only to remark, that no such cases have come under my notice; yet I have had a great many in the most profound collapse, and of surpassing malignancy, which reco- vered, and none which proved fatal where the least candid would deny that there were cir- cumstances present which were superadded to the disease, and might have been obviated, and which, therefore, materially interfered with the treatment, and prevented the favour- able issue of it.
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