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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![CHAPTER Xr. TREATMENT OF CHOLERA. The character of ciiolera beinci,- so fatal, we are naturally led to ask how it may be esca])ed, or how, if a person is attacked with k, he onglit to be treated. Tliis is the true end of all our in- quiries. It is for this that we study anatomy, and inquire into the manner in which the different functions are performed. It is ibr this tliat we make such very diligent observations on diseases in all climates, and compare their symjjtoms, and look at the effects after death. By these means the physician or the surgeon learns to cure dis- ea.ses, or to guard the public from them: and by the same means those who are neither physi- cians or surgeons may learn to take some care of themselves. The attacks of cholera are made so suddenly, they excite so mucli alarm, and so soon destroy the patient, that there is no disease of which it is more desirable that all persons should know the proper management. Even in towns, if the disease should unfortunately become very com- mon, ])ersons might be lost for want of proper medical attendance : and in lone houses and cottages in the country, a severe attack of cholera would often carry off the patient before a medical man could reach him.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298129_0196.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
