History of the cholera controversy with directions for the treatment of the disease / by Sir George Johnson.

Date:
1896
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Credit: History of the cholera controversy with directions for the treatment of the disease / by Sir George Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion. No drug, not even opium, has so direct and powerful an influence in arresting or checking elim- ination as the greatly impeded circulation through the luno's, of which extreme contraction of the pulmonary arterioles is the cause, and the condition known as collapse the result. The supply of blood to the left side of the heart and the systemic arteries is greatly reduced, and, as an obvious con- sequence, the process of elimination by the gastro- intestinal mucous membrane is in a corresponding degree lessened. The discharges are always greatly diminished during collapse, and too often their complete suppression is inevitably fatal. It is sur- prising that any one who has seen much of cholera should doubt that a continuance of the discharges during collapse is an essential condition of recovery from that perilous state. VIII. Contrasted Results of Evacuant and Astringent Treatment of Cholera. The most valuable record of the results of various modes of treatment that I know of is contained in a very able and most interesting paper by Drs. M‘Cloy and Robertson, published in the 50th volume of the ‘‘ Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society.” The authors state that 375 cases of cholera with collapse were admitted into the Liverpool parish infirmary during the