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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    Cholera Morbus, by the usual means of power- ful stimuli, antispasmodics, blisters, warm em- brocations, &c., I concluded that I must be wrong in theory, so looked for other means of relief. On examining, as already observed, what is usually vomited on such occasions, I invariably found it of an acescent nature ; and, on more minutely questioning those who were labouring under the disorder, I discovered that, in every instance, the ailment could be traced to some acid or acescent substance, such as limejuice of a bad quality, unripe fruit of any kind, crude vegetables, buttermilk too long kept in hot weather ; or, what often happened, the toddy of the cocoa-nut tree or palmyra-tree drank in ' a state of fermentation. So much having been ascertained, I lost no time in having recourse to antacids, and generally gave a pi'eference to the sub-carbonate of magnesia, in a full dose (30), (30) Seldom less than two drachms and a half, or three drachms j this I found a more certain remedy than the liquor potassae, or the
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