The cholera spasmodica, as observed in Paris in 1832; comprising its symptoms, pathology, and treatment / [Ashbel Smith].

  • Smith, Ashbel, 1805-1886.
Date:
1832
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Credit: The cholera spasmodica, as observed in Paris in 1832; comprising its symptoms, pathology, and treatment / [Ashbel Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My observations on the cholera were written in Paris, and in part sent to America, when I heard of the appearance of this disease in Canada. This accounts for my having spoken in several places of the appearance of this disease in our country, as problematical. My intention, as I have before stated, was simply to embody those facts of which I had been a witness. On my arrival in New-York I found my pamphlet in the course of publication. I concluded to publish it as it was written—an ac- count of the cholera as it appeared in Paris, and of the means employed to combat it, by the cele- brated practitioners of that city. Though my observations have been chiefly made in a single hospital, yet from the frequent intercourse of me- dical gentlemen, and the publicity given to the different methods of treatment, by means of the Royal Academy of Medicine, and the various pub- lications on this disease, I have been enabled to see put in practice the remedies suggested by the combined skill and experience of the Parisian faculty. We are assured by those who have observed the cholera in different countries, (and I had oc- casion to remark the fact on seeing it in London,) that though presenting in all places nearly the same leading characteristics, this disease exhibits in different regions, a considerable variety in the « _ + bal