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, with a view to a more just appreciation of the means for its prevention and cure, with numerous illustrative cases / by Joseph Ayre.

  • Ayre, Joseph, 1781-1860.
Date:
1823
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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, with a view to a more just appreciation of the means for its prevention and cure, with numerous illustrative cases / by Joseph Ayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The leading purpose of the following work is to place before the reader the method and results of the treatment pursued by me, and, after me, by others, for the cure of the ma- lignant cholera. Viewing the complaint as primarily one of disordered function, I con- sidered it would be remediable by those means which should correct that disorder, and I sought and found such a remedy in calomel when given exclusively, and to a large amount, and in small and frequently repeated doses ; and I now offer it as such, with proofs, as I regard them, ample and incontestable, of its being one. To some, perhaps, the very assumption of a single medicine possessing any thing of the property of a specific for the cure of this complaint, may prove—as, indeed, it has done with many—a sufficient ground for its rejection; and to these, therefore, I would now reply by an appeal to the facts which ar^