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 / By Joseph Ayre.

  • Ayre, Joseph, 1781-1860.
Date:
1833
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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 / By Joseph Ayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rey of London, who justly regarded it as a specific for the cure of that disease. In the dose, indeed, I deviated from him, as I did in the view which I took of the mode in which it acted, as will be ex- plained in its place; and instead of giving, as was his practice, two, three, or four grains of calomel every two hours, I divided his dose into four parts, and quartered also his times of repeating it. When exhibited in this way, with or without, as circum- stances should require, a minute quantity of opium, and continued uninterruptedly for several hours, or until the disease was subdued, it proved with me, as it had done with him, and with all my pro- fessional friends, who at my recommendation adopted it, a constant, and, I must add, an unfail- ing remedy ; and if, in thus characterising it, | may be thought to speak too strongly, I have only to remark further, that I do so advisedly, and, for its correctness, can appeal to the testimony of the many who have used it, or who have witnessed my using it during many years in hospital and private practice. These, then, being my views respecting the nature of the English cholera, and of its identity with the Asiatic complaint, and such my confidence, derived from a long experience in the power of small and frequently repeated doses of calomel for its cure, it was with no ordinary degree of interest that, on the appearance of the foreign disease in this country, I proceeded to the towns of Sunderland and Newcastle, to reduce my views to practice.