Cholera prospects : compiled from personal observation in the East. For the information and guidance of individuals and governments / by Tilbury Fox.

  • William Tilbury Fox
Date:
1865
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Credit: Cholera prospects : compiled from personal observation in the East. For the information and guidance of individuals and governments / by Tilbury Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Calomel, in large closes, as a therapeutic agent, has been lauded; it probably acts locally, and the alkaline sulphites are much preferable, do more good, and no incidental mischief. The saline treatment of cholera, I would observe, in conclusion, finds no favour with those who have had large experience in the most terrible forms of this disease. We are assured by many that absorption is entirely lost by the mucous surface of the stomach in severe cases. This does not appear to be wholly true. Here, certainly, the hypodermic method of treatment, or injections into the veins, will be de- manded, and I should certainly make use of them had I reason to suspect absorption was not going on. By the attention to early diarrhoeal symptoms, depression and perceptible lowering of the pulse, however, the greatest amount of good is effected. At the same time, he who would relinquish the treatment of a case, as long as one breath is left to his patient, is hardly fit to handle the sacred art of medicine. COX AND WYMAN, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON.
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