Observations on the cholera morbus of India : a letter addressed to the Honourable the Court of directors of the East-India Company / by Whitelaw Ainslie.

Date:
1825
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    ]G Johnstone, and Dr. Good, witli all that talent and discrimination which distinguish them, have given their sentiments fully to the public ; so that, as far as regards the Historia Morhi, per- haps little remains to be done ; a more certainly successful and definite method of treating it must be the fruits of yet greater experience, and close and patient investigation. Like every other complaint to which the hu- man frame is subject, the Epidemic Cholera diflers much in its degree of severity, according to circumstances, connected with natural consti- tution, diet and exposure to cold, heat or mois- ture ; in some instances, especially in Ceylon, which island it reached in December 1818, and where it woidd seem to have raged even more violently (9) than in the Peninsula, the patients expired in twelve or fifteen hours from the first (9) See Marshall’s Medical Topography of Ceylon, page 199, where that gentleman observes, that though in a few cases medi- cine was useful, it ultimately failed in producing a cure.