Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera [as treated in the London General Institution (Royal Free Hospital), during ... 1832-1834] / [William Marsden].

  • William Marsden
Date:
1834
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Credit: Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera [as treated in the London General Institution (Royal Free Hospital), during ... 1832-1834] / [William Marsden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neglecting to protect and preserve the indigent from pestilence or famine, the higher grades of society lose their best chance of preserving themselves from the like evils. On the appearance of the so-called “Malignant Cholera,” the Governors of the London General Institution, for the Cure of Malignant Diseases, in Gre- ville Street, Hatton Garden, in the most prompt and effective manner, made up fifty beds', and threw open their doors to the indiscriminate admission of all sufferers from that disease. In justice to the managers of that Charity, I feel that the warmest thanks of the public are duly merited by every member of their Committee, not only for the care and attention they invariably devoted to the comfort of the patients, but for the ample opportunities they afforded to their medical officers, for acquiring a know-
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