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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    on the discoloration of the intestines, because it is so obvious and constant an appearance, and so liable to lead a superfi- cial observer into error. Were it not my wish to avoid as much as possible speculation, I would trace some interest- ing analogies between the small circumscribed petechiee of typhus petechialis and the diffused lividity of cholera, and explain what I conceive to be the cause of this difference. I could easily have been much more minute on the subject of post mortem appearances, and had I designed to give a complete account of them, I must have necessarily been so. Before describing the treatment of cholera, I shall makea few remarks on CHOLERINE. From the slightest perceptible epidemic influence to the severest forms of cholera, there is every shade of intensity. It is consequently very difficult if not impossible, to draw accurately a line of demarcation. In general, when one or more of the essential symptoms of a fully developed case of cholera, such as vomiting, purging or cramps are wanting, or exist only in a very slight degree, the disease is termed toms, should the others be exquisitely marked, and espe- cially if accompanied with considerable prostration, the disease is a decided cholera. When the peculiar decom- position of the features, the discoloration of the extremities, great refrigeration, or suspension of the urinary secretion is present in a case, it may be confidently pronounced cholera. In a cholerine however mild, the experienced eye detects in a slight degree, the epidemic impress on the features. The stage of formation of cholera, such as has been