Asiatic cholera : its history, pathology, and modern treatment / by A.J. Wall.

  • Wall, A. J. (Alfred John), 1847-1898.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Asiatic cholera : its history, pathology, and modern treatment / by A.J. Wall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is as follows:—*' The Ho-lwan (cholera) is a sudden attack of pain in the heart and abdomen, with vomiting and purging, a dread of cold and a desire of warmth. It is accompanied with pain in the head and giddiness. When the pain attacks the heart first, vomiting comes on first; when the pain commences in the abdomen the purging precedes. When the pain in the heart and abdomen synchronise, the vomiting and purging come on at the same time. When the disease is severe the patient has spasms; and when these enter the abdomen death ensues. There are several references to it in the earlier medieval authors, as in Ehazes of Bagdad and Avicenna.i But when we come to the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries we find many accounts of it. In 1574 there was published at Antwerp a Latin translation of a work by the Portuguese physician, Garcia d'Orta,]: residing at Goa, and the description given by him of cholera is very accurate. Jacobus Bontius, a Dutch physician living at Batavia in the East Indies, wrote in 1629 an exceedingly good account of cholera. He says, Cornelius van Eoyen, who being in perfect health at six in the evening, was suddenly seized with cholera, and expired in terrible agony and convulsions before twelve o'clock at night, the violence and rapidity of the disorder surmounting the force of every remedy. But if the patient should survive the period above mentioned, there is great hope of performing a cure. This disease is attended with a weak pulse, difficult respiration, and coldness of * Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, by Dr. August Hiesch. London, 1883. t See Annals of Cholera, by John MacPhebson, M.D. London, 1872. X Aromatum et Simplicium aliquot Medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium Historia. Gaecia ab Hoeto, Auctore. AntverjncBy MDLXXIIII.