Letters on the cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared in the city of New York : addressed to John C. Warren, M.D., of Boston, and originally published in that city. Together with other letters, not before published / by Martyn Paine.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Letters on the cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared in the city of New York : addressed to John C. Warren, M.D., of Boston, and originally published in that city. Together with other letters, not before published / by Martyn Paine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    LETTER III.* New-York, August 19th, 1832. Dear Sir, In my letter to you yesterday, explaining the results of my experience in the treatment of the premonitory symptoms of Cholera Asphyxia, I had not the time to say what I could have desi- red on the no less important subject of the ex- citing causes of the disease. Having, however, adverted in a former communication to the ge- * This letter was introduced by the original publisher with the following remarks, and which are retained for obvious reasons. I need not say that T entirely concur in the opinion expressed on the subject of food. The author of this and two other able letters on the same sub- ject appears to disapprove the use of fruits and vegetables during the Cholera season. On this opinion it may be remarked, that a distinction should be made between a place where Cholera is epidemic, and one where it is expected to be epidemic. Where the epidemic exists no one should eat fruit and vegeta- bles, unless the state of the digestive organs require these articles, and then with all possible precaution as to quantity and observation of the effect produced. Where the Cholera docs not prevail, the constitution of the at- mosphere, although predisposing to the epidemic, need not prevent a prudent tibe of ripe fruits and good vegetables.