Suggestions submitted to the medical practitioners of Edinburgh on the characters and treatment of the malignant cholera ... / Published for the benefit of the Board of Health.

  • Abercrombie, John, 1780-1844
Date:
1832
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Credit: Suggestions submitted to the medical practitioners of Edinburgh on the characters and treatment of the malignant cholera ... / Published for the benefit of the Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about to offer, are chiefly the result of communica¬ tions which I have had from Sunderland, Newcastle, and Haddington. Though they may contain little that is new, they may be worthy of being laid before the profession, as the latest observations of intelligent British practitioners who have treated, to some ex¬ tent, this formidable disease. In regard to the history and progress of Cholera, a point of the first practical importance seems to be now clearly made out,—namely, that the disease is distinctly referable to three stages. The First, or premonitory stage, to which the at¬ tention of the profession and of the public ought to be eagerly directed, is distinguished by languor,—feeble¬ ness of the limbs,—uneasiness in the head,—often some frequency of pulse,—and an irritable state of the bowels, perhaps to the extent of three or four evacua¬ tions daily. These motions are at first thin but natural, like those of a common diarrhoea, but, as the disease advances, they become gradually paler, until they as¬ sume the characteristic appearances of the Cholera