Cholera : its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general : third pamphlet / by J.M. Honigberger.

  • Johann Martin Honigberger
Date:
1861
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    xxu inspection and report of our doings? Was it not their duty, when they saw in the Phoenix of the 11th December 1857 the highly interesting report from Ariadah, of the effects of my remedy, to have enquired and ascertained the fact; either to have contradicted the article, if it was false, so that I and the public may not have been mistaken, or on finding it to be a truth, which I believe it to be, to have made further trials, and being fully convinced of the good effects of the remedy, to have it without delay introduced in the Army ? I read in Europe in a home paper, that the whole of the troops, who were under orders to proceed to India, from the month of June last, had been supplied with Cholera belts previous to embarkation. I know not what the nature or style of those belts may be; Had the late Governor of Madras one of such a preservative perhaps he would have remained free of Cholera! From my own observations, and from what I heard, it seems quite evident, that the Medical Faculty of Bengal were fully persuaded, as to the beneficial effect of my inocu- lation system; either it may be from jealousy or, they might think it a humiliation to learn from me how to prevent and how to cure Cholera, that they will not use the -remedy. Shortly before the publication of my secret, I called to visit a patient at the Medical College Hospital, who had an attack of Cholera. I was told, that they came with the consent of their doctors, who had given up the patient. She was a waiter, I believe, in the Fever Department of the Hospital, by name Mrs. Lloyd. I found her in a state of collapse, having her cold body rubbed all over with ginger powder, but of no use, they said. After a few repeated inoculations of my remedy she recovered, and I
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