Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / by Thomas Molison.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Remarks on the epidemic disease called cholera, as it occurred in Newcastle / by Thomas Molison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    must require much time for the recruiting- of the enfeebled powers; and I believe that what has been reg-arded as the stupor of Typhus, is nothing- more than the refreshment of the soundest repose. In the case mentioned in the sequel, No. VII. I am now of opinion, that I mistook sleep for stupor dependent upon an affection of the brain, and my treatment was in unison with my preconceived views. I never afterwards was so officious; and believing- much sleep both necessary and salutary, I restricted my treatment to small quantities of wine and arrowroot, and never had any occasion to regret it: my views were only confirmed by my subsequent experience. For a day or two the patient is drowsy, but it is amazing how speedily the tongue cleans. He continues in a very enfeebled and debilitated state for days or weeks, yet he is recovering as rapidly as the nature of things should allow us to expect. By these remarks I do not at all mean to deny, that attacks of local inflammation may occur. The congestion of blood, before noticed, in the tunica adnata, shews that there is a tendency of this nature, and would put me on my guard against it. At the same time, no decided case of this description has presented itself to my notice. Congestion was probably the cause of death in the only case known to me, which terminated fatally after days of full reaction j but on this point I cannot speak positively, as I gave no attention to the case. In the complete stage of reaction, and after sound