The common sense of cholera / by a practical practitioner.

  • Stirling, James Hutchison, 1820-1909.
Date:
1854
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    four well-marked stages, each of which is to be treated ou its own principles; and that the indications in these are, respectively, to prepare and support each function, and the system generally, with special reference to the peculiar nature of the process i threatened or commenced, to suppress haunorrhage, to rally from syncope, and to moderate reaction. It : will be useful, also, to bear in mind that during one- lialf of the process we have to retain, and during the other to restore fluid. We shall be pleased if we shall have spoken not quite uselessly; if we shall have shown that the nature and treatment of cholera are about as well. i known as those of any other malady; and that we • (all practical practitioners) deserve the support and I confidence of the public as fully here as elsewhere, i We take the liberty, in conclusion, also, to exhort our brethren not to increase the general confusion i by any special confusion of their own: we urge them not to run hither and thither in disconcerted eager--M ness of quest for panaceas that can never be accorded, .i but to look calmly at the matter, to see what pro- - cess it is that is really taking place, and to meet it t on those great principles of medicine and common sense which it has taken so many men and so many. centuries to provide—such as they are the best, as yet, our hands can seize upon. THE EXD. Savill & Edwards, Printers, 4, Chandos-strect, Covont-garden.