Observations on spasmodic cholera : its origin, nature, and treatment : with remarks on epidemic diseases generally / by Henry M'Cormac.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on spasmodic cholera : its origin, nature, and treatment : with remarks on epidemic diseases generally / by Henry M'Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The first edition of this pamphlet, which was written during the turmoil and hurry of Hospital practice, having been exhausted, I beg to offer this second to the public. The appendix which is now added, contains a minute summary of the mode of treatment pursued in the Belfast Cholera Hospital, whereby the gross mortality has been kept below twenty-five in every hundred cases, an unexampled degree of success I believe, in hospital practice. Some things I intended to have re-written, others, to have modified, but my time was limited, and I thought that I would just leave my general statements, which, so far as I know, are correct, nearly as they were. Speculation besides is endless; I have thought a great deal more on the subject than I have been able to express —and I am not sure that any alterations which I could effect, would be improve- ments.