The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon].
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- Date:
- 1832
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Credit: The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Common sense will infbi-ni every reader that this dose, which is meant for a grown jjerson in a severe attack of the disease, would be more than necessary for a young person, or for a weak person, in a less severe attack of the dis- ease. Without the exercise of the judgment, medicines become more destructive than diseases. So also the repetition of the medicine—lau- danum and brandy, or any other medicine, or the changing-of the medicine for anything-else— these are points which few could be com])ctent to without medical knowledge. While what has been already recommended has been done, if not before, it is to be hoped that some medical man will see the patient. When the blankets are warming, ancl the brandy and water pre- paring, a messenger should be sent otF in all possible haste to the medical man. Everything depends upon that. Many of those who died at St. Petersburg died in consequence of not having medical assistance soon enough. But there are persons so situated as to have no means of getting advice for some hours; far off in the country, through bad roads, and in the night, and their medical man attending' some other patient whom he cannot leave. Some rules must be laid down for them. At all events let the brandy and water be given, and the patient wrapped in his blanket, and if there is any laudanum give it him. Then there will be time to collect one's thoughts a little. Consider, then, w^hat are the effects to be ex- pected from what you have done. The skin was cold, the blood had deserted it for the internal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298129_0201.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
