Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera : and on the pathology of mucous membranes / by Alex. Turnbull Christie.

Date:
1828
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Credit: Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera : and on the pathology of mucous membranes / by Alex. Turnbull Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    state of the one may always serve as an in- dex to that of the other. Now, I would ask any medical man what he has observed in re- gard to this in practice ? I am confident he will answer that the biliary secretion is often increased when the perspiration is diminish- ed, and vice versa. How often do we observe in fevers, that the skin continues parched and dry, while, at the same time, the patient pass- es immense quantities of bile, and does not feel relieved until the increased flow of bile ceases and the perspiration returns. The same tiling happens in Cholera Morbus. This disease is characterised, at first, by hot and dry skin, and bilious vomiting and purging; and the patient is only relieved from his suf- ferings when the biliary secretion diminishes and the cuticular bursts forth. On the other liand, in the epidemic or Indian Cholera, there is frequently profuse perspiration, and, at the same time not a trace of bile in any part of the alimentary canal. Examples of this kind might be multiplied, but these are sufficient