The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French.

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    paper strongly confirmed the truth of this view; but the well known fact that Cholera has proved fatal before the alimentary canal had become affected, led the author of this inquiry to further and stricter investigation. His aim is to prove that the disease essentially consists in paralysis or diminished power of action of the heart;—and to show that the consequent symptoms constitute the means by which Nature attempts to remedy the evil, analogous to the remedial means she employs in repairing any mechanical injury to the animal frame. The plan adopted is to show,—first, the analogy of Cholera with other diseases ;—then, to explain its own peculiar nature ;—and, lastly, to lay down principles of treatment, which can alone be derived from an accurate knowledge of the nature of the disease.