Letters on the cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared in the city of New York : addressed to John C. Warren, M.D., of Boston, and originally published in that city. Together with other letters, not before published / by Martyn Paine.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Letters on the cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared in the city of New York : addressed to John C. Warren, M.D., of Boston, and originally published in that city. Together with other letters, not before published / by Martyn Paine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disease, and which were the two first dissections made in the United States. These examinations aic fully described in the seventh letter, which was originally published in the New-England Medical and Surgical Journal. Since then, besides my own private practice, I have daily visited as many of the hospitals as my en- gagements would admit of, and have made and witness- ed numerous dissections. To have described these va- rious post mortem examinations would have been an un- necessary repetition of similar appearances. I have thought it worth while to preserve only such cases as would exhibit the several varieties of symptoms which have passed under my observation. These will be found in the eighth, ninth and tenth letters, which have also been published in the Medical Journal. One of these also announces the important discovery by Dr. Gale, a scientific chemist of this city, of oil existing in a free state in the blood of Cholera subjects. The letters, except those describing the dissections, are printed in the order in which they were written. The parts of the subject of which they treat cannot, there- fore, be expected to be formally or methodically ar- ranged. Each letter was however designed to embrace a single topic. The first presents a general view of the disease; the second relates to the nature and treatjncnt of premonitory symptoms ; the third to the importance