The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon].
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- 1832
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![skin; and t]ie patients in whom this appeared commonly recovered. In cases of measles and small-pox in this conntry, where the eruption does not readily con)e out, convulsions some- limes occur, which are ended by the breaking out of the eruption. These facts, put together, point to a mode of relieving the internal organs, by acting- on the skin; and this is one of the points to be kept in view in the cholera. It would seem that much of the blood, or perhaps of the nervous energy also, which ought to i)e employed in the small vessels of the body, in- cluding those of the skin, is mis-directed to the muscles which form, as has been explained, one of the coats of the intestines, or to the nerves which govern their motions, and there produces irregular action and mischief If we can di-aw it back again, to the small vessels of the skin, and of other parts, we shall relieve the muscles and their nerves, arxd the convulsions will pro- bably cease. But this is not all that we are required to do. —If we would understand how to manage a patient ill of cholera, we must consider how he is aflected by it altogether. Let us remember that this is his state—that his skin is very cold —that the action of his heart is very w^eak— that for a time he has violent vomiting and purging—and then extreme depression—that sometimes the depression comes on before the vomiting and purging seem to have time to begin,—and that the depression may be so ex- treme and so rapidly brought on that the patient may die as U' he were poisoned. Let us . re-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298129_0198.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
