Outlines for a proper theory and cure of cholera / [John Wilkinson].

  • Wilkinson, John
Date:
1832
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Credit: Outlines for a proper theory and cure of cholera / [John Wilkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / a vomit have removed what might be termed here the state of collapse, had they been employed instead of the opium ? Pup.—Oh ! certainly, they might have removed it entirely,—possibly in an hour ! Ex.—But if spasmo¬ dic cholera is not a dreadful pestilential malady, almost incurable under any circumstances, how do you account for nearly half the cases being fatal? Pup.—Partly from the disease running its course so rapidly that as¬ sistance is not procured until it be too late; in hot clim¬ ates, partly, perhaps, from a circumstance that is either known, or ought to be known, that sickness of stomach is always vastly more intense in a hot atmosphere than in a cold one; partly from a peculiar susceptibility to its attacks of persons whose nervous energy has been ex¬ hausted by fatigue, or other depressing causes; and partly, in this country at least, from the disease being regarded, by every one, rather with wonder and terror, than treated as a disease which, if taken in time, may be frequently cured upon sound principles. '5 END.