A report of the method and results of the treatment for the malignant cholera, by small and frequently repeated doses of calomel; with an enquiry into the nature and origin of the complaint / By Joseph Ayre.

  • Ayre, Joseph, 1781-1860.
Date:
1833
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Credit: A report of the method and results of the treatment for the malignant cholera, by small and frequently repeated doses of calomel; with an enquiry into the nature and origin of the complaint / By Joseph Ayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the politeness and liberality of Dr. Clanny, of Sunderland, I was early indebted for an opportunity of doing this ; and a few hours after my arrival he invited me to take the charge of a case, to conduct myself the treatment of it. ‘The case was one of entire collapse, and only just visited, and ma- lignant to the degree of there being no pulse at the wrist. In the severe cases of the English cholera, I had usually given half a grain or a grain of calomel every twenty or thirty minutes. The malignancy, however, of the case now before me, called for a larger dose, and a more frequent ex- hibition of it; and I gave the patient, therefore, two grains every ten minutes for several hours. The result was what I anticipated, and have since so often realised. She was convalescent in less than two days, and was recovered in two more. On my visit to Newcastle, I reported the treatment, and the results of it, to some medical gentlemen to whom I was introduced; and three weeks after my return home, I was informed, by letters from those gentlemen, that the method I had suggested had become nearly the common and approved practice in that town, and had so far superseded in general favour the practice previously pursued, as to be officially recommended from the Board of Health established there. * From information, however, derived from my * See Appendix. a