Cholera, its nature, cause, and treatment : with original views physiological, pathological, and therapeutical, in relation to fever, the action of poisons on the system, &c., &c. : to which is added, an essay on vital temperature and nervous energy, explanatory more particularly of the nature, source, and distribution of the latter, and of the connection between the mind and the body, &c., &c. / by Charles Searle.

  • Searle, Charles.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Cholera, its nature, cause, and treatment : with original views physiological, pathological, and therapeutical, in relation to fever, the action of poisons on the system, &c., &c. : to which is added, an essay on vital temperature and nervous energy, explanatory more particularly of the nature, source, and distribution of the latter, and of the connection between the mind and the body, &c., &c. / by Charles Searle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The object of this work, is the improvement of our practice, in the attempt to define principles of treatment of a disease, the pathology and nature of which from being but imperfectly understood, many—very many, annually fall a sacrifice—at least such is my belief; not that 1 charge my professional brethren with any culpability in which T am not equally implicated ; no, it was the experience of want of success in my own practice, with the loss of a relative, on the same occasion that the public sustained so heavy a one, in the death of the late revered Governor of Madras—Sir Thomas Munro, who also fell a victim to this disease:— leading me to the conclusion, that there was something radically wrong in our views and treatment,— induced me to investigate the numerous public records on the subject; from which I had deduced certain inferences, and was embodying my thoughts, in a shape suitable with the intention I meditated, of submitting my views to the Medical Society of Madras, then existing—when becoming myself the subject of its attack, it not only afforded me an opportunity of verifying the conclusions 1 had arrived at, v/ith regard to the line of practice which should be pursued in the treatment; but under this personal experience, having strictly attended to the progression of the symptoms, and my feelings—it gave me a clue, which enabled me to solve, the