Cholera, its nature, cause, and treatment : simply, scientifically, and practically explained : intended for general information.

  • Searle, Charles.
Date:
1866
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    A/M Cholera: its Nature, Cause, and Treatmeiw, . I Simply, Scientifically, and Practically Explained. By Q. S.c# ,/f.jy.efr Intended for General Information. As the successful treatment of this too fatal disease is so largely dependent upon the early treatment of its invasion, it is both right and proper that not only the Medical pro- fession should know, but the public also should be made fully acquainted, with what constitute the earliest symp- toms of the attack and mode of its invasion, as well as the proper remedies to be resorted to on the occasion; inas- much that it is to the attention and treatment of these symptoms, when professional assistance is so seldom called for or deemed necessary, that success with any confidence can be anticipated. The symptoms of Cholera, commensurate with the cir- cumstances of the case,—the previous state of health and constitution of the individual,—the length of exposure to the epidemic or other immediate exciting cause of the at- tack,—its nature and virulence,—the state of the atmo- sphere as to humidity and temperature, and other modify- ing circumstances,—may therefore come on suddenly, or stealthily, and thus may the sufferer be suddenly seized with giddiness and prostration of power, attended with watery purging and oppression about the stomach and bowels; succeeded by vomiting, coldness, and cramps in the extremities. Or these latter classed symptoms, pre- ceded by and coming on insidiously as simple diarrhoea or indigestion, may be progressively developed—involving a period of several hours or some days’ duration before they become alarming in their character. To treat these symptoms successfully, we must have a clear perception of their cause and nature, and this will soon teach us that it is not by arresting the evacuations, which are rather of curative tendency than otherwise, by chalk mixture and opiates, but by removing or superseding their cause that we can hope to benefit the patient. It will, however be said, that many have recovered who have been so treated; but as the immediate cause is some pol- luted and malignant condition of the blood, internally en- gendered by arrest of the secretions, or externally derived