The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon].
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- 1832
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Credit: The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and some of the internal organs, as the lungs and the intestines, so that one was seldom atlected without the other. Few diseases afford us a stronger instance of this affection of the intestines and of the skin at the same time than the disease which has been the subject of so considerable a portion of the present volume. Together with the state of irritation and spasm of the intestines, we have seen that the surface of the body was pale or blue, and covered with cold perspiration, and that the skin had the coldness of death. Every one may have ex- perienced that the ex])osure of the body for a long time to the heat of the sun produces some disturbance of the stomach ; nausea perhaps, and aversion to food. Exposure to cold air, or even plung-ing in cold water, when the coldness is not long applied to the body, revives and invigorates all but those who are very feeble. It depresses the feeble ; lowers the circulation, cools the skin too much, and produces shivering: the blood seems to desert the surface and to crowd the vessels of some internal organ, and the person complains of headach, languor, and general oppression. The same effect is pro- duced by a very long exposure to cold in even the strongest persons; for although a short ex- posure is followed by a glow, or greater action of the vessels of the skin, a continuance of the cold depresses the circulation so much that no glow follows—no reaction ; particularly if the in- dividual is not taking active exercise at the time of being exposed to the cold. After such long exposure follow various irregularities of the cir-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298129_0181.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
