An essay on the nature and treatment of the Indian pestilence, commonly called cholera / by Henry Penneck.

  • Penneck Henry.
Date:
1831
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Credit: An essay on the nature and treatment of the Indian pestilence, commonly called cholera / by Henry Penneck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ESSAY, See. THE great interest which the disease called Cholera has excited in the public mind, has induced me to examine very many of the papers which have been written on the subject, describing its symptoms, and the appearances on dissection. I have compared the descriptions contained in the Bengal and Bombay reports, and other Indian documents, on the one hand, with the accounts of the Russian Cholera given in the reports of Sir William Crichton, Drs. Keir, Russell, Barry, and others, on the other hand ; and I have found the strongest reason to acquiesce in the conclu- sion which is most generally drawn, that the disease is identically the same in both countries, subject only to such variations as different climates may be well supposed to produce, and only modified by the fevers most prevalent in them. I am also convinced this disease is very distinct from the disease usually called Cholera in this country; and further, I hope to make it appear, that it is clearly and essentially a specific form of fever. That I may not too much increase the bulk of this paper, I beg to refer at once, for the full detail of the symptoms and dissections, to the valuable documents already published by the Board of Health, quoting only such passages from them and others, as I may find it necessary to remark on. I observe the vomit- ing, purging, cramps, and suppression of all the se- cretions, coldness, and blueness of the skin, are made A