A plain and brief sketch of cholera : with a simple and economical mode for its treatment, submitted with confidence from repeated success in its application / by William Henry Williams.

  • Williams, William Henry, 1771-1841.
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A plain and brief sketch of cholera : with a simple and economical mode for its treatment, submitted with confidence from repeated success in its application / by William Henry Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    In case the paste should be removed by any evacuation of the bowels, or other cause, before the desired relief be effected, the application of a similar quantity, in a similar shape, should be repeated; and again in one, two, four, six, or eight hours, as may be required by the continu- ance of pain, spasm, vomiting, or purging. The size and quantity of the paste is for a person exceeding eighteen years of age; whilst two-thirds will be sufficient between six and eighteen; and one-third for those from infancy to six years old. The salutary effects of the Anodyne Paste has exceeded my most sanguine hopes ; an assertion vrhich, I trust, may be justified by the following incipient and other Cases of Cholera, which have fallen under my own immediate observation :— CASE i. W. T., a young woman aged 21, was attacked about eight in the evening with violent cramps in her legs and stomach ; during that day, she had two evacuations in the bowels of a nature not very relaxed—she vomited once, and frequently retched—the surface was warm, countenance na- tural, pulse 80, and of fair strength, and tongue furred. Sixty drops of tincture of opium, at half-
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