On the antidotal treatment of the epidemic cholera, with a sketch of the physiology of this disease, as deduced from that of intermittent fever / by John Parkin.

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1835
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    V H Y S 1 O L () G V.* When we observe tlie symptoms which this siii- fTular malady presents, and company them with • Having takrn with me to S|>ain the rough note* of a MS. which [ was then preparing for pubiication. Dr. Gardoqui, of Cadiz, whose intimate acquaintance with the Engltsh language rendered him {xculiarly fitted for tlw task, was kind enotqth volontarily to undertake the trans- lation of the same. This gentleman, whose zeal and interest on tire occasion merit my warmest gratitude, was enabled, by devoting all the time be could sfiare from more active duties, to furnish me with a copy on my departure from that town fiw Uarcelona, where it was publisbcd a short time aAer my arrival. In that work I contented myself with fol- lowing. with some slight variation, the track marked out by Mr. Hell, in his views of the physiology of the Epidemic Cholera,—the more ne- cessary at tlrat time, in consequence of the opinions entcrtaimxl by Ibis author being almost entirely unknown in Spain; the generality of the profession there considering, with Brouwwis, that tills disease is, not a lesion of the nervous system, but an inflsmnutory' sffectioa of the mucous membrane of the intestinal canal. This memoir was subse- quently translated into French by Dr. Dnnal of Montpellier, and pub- lished about the period of the outbreak of the C holera in the south of France;—an honour for which I am indebted to the favourable report given by the .\cademy of Medicine in Uarcelona to that of Montpellier, in answer to their inquiries respecting the result of the administration of carbonic acid in that town. In the above mrntionerl MS. some physiological remarks had been liazartled, as to the probable situation of the jiuison productive of the F.ptdemic Cholera, in the different stages of the disease. Having no facta, at that time, to bring forward in support of any hypothesis, the remarks alluded to were omitted, until further opportunities were afforded me of investigating the subject. During the following winter and spring, some cHriical experimentN were institnted for the purpose of deriving collateral evidence from the treatment then ado|ited; and having d/aw'n certain conclusions from the mutt of thoae evperiments, c ‘2