Essay on the nature and treatment of cholera and fever : with medical remarks on the treatment of cattle plague : also an appendix on public health / by James Tucker.

  • Tucker, James, M.D.
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1865
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Essay on the nature and treatment of cholera and fever : with medical remarks on the treatment of cattle plague : also an appendix on public health / by James Tucker. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Begins with a letter to William Stevens and discusses with enthusiasm his theories about a saline treatment for cholera and "formidable cattle distempers". Opium, brandy, cajegut oil, seidlitz powder, epsom salts, beef tea, carbonate of soda, tartrate of soda and potass and quinine are mentioned as being used elsewhere to help cure it.

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Dublin : John Falconer ; London : Churchill & Sons, 1865.

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40 pages ; 21 cm

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