The Board of Health and the cholera : a memoir of the saline treatment.

  • MacMillan, James.
Date:
[1852]
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    persons were treated on the saline plan for Cholera with a result of 461 recoveries and 4 deaths. Secondly—That in the same place, during the same period, about 162 patients in the collapse stage of Cholera were treated on the saline plan with a result of 158 recoveries and 4 deaths. Thirdly—That by the concurrent testimony of respectable practitioners in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Canada, the new practice, when fairly tried, either at home or abroad, was equally effica- cious in the epidemic of 1848-9 as in the visitation of 1832. Further, I offer to prove that the new practice was eminently successful in a number of other prisons and hospitals of London in the year 1832; and I firmly believe that I am able to prove all the details to the last fraction of the amount stated; but I submit that, allowing a wide margin for errors of account, and supposing that to be filled up, more than enough will still remain to justify my request for an enquiry at the hands of Government. I may adduce also, in support of this memoir's claims to attention, the fact that Mr, Marsden, of the Free Hospital,