The sumbul : a new Asiatic remedy of great power against nervous disorders, spasms of the stomach, cramp, hysterical affections, paralysis of the limbs, and epilepsy : with an account of its physical, chemical, and medicinal characters, and specific property of checking the progress of collapse-cholera, as first ascertained in Russia / by A.B. Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1859
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Credit: The sumbul : a new Asiatic remedy of great power against nervous disorders, spasms of the stomach, cramp, hysterical affections, paralysis of the limbs, and epilepsy : with an account of its physical, chemical, and medicinal characters, and specific property of checking the progress of collapse-cholera, as first ascertained in Russia / by A.B. Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the method of treating Cholera in the civil and military hospitals both of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as witnessed by myself in a recent professional visit to both capitals, I pointed out the comparative suc- cessful result obtained by that method, in the ac- companying official returns of attacks, deaths, and recoveries in cases of Cholera in certain hospitals. That method I described as both simple and new— and then it was that I first named the Sumbul as one of the agents in the method in question. At the time of so naming that drug, I surmised that it might be a well-known agent among my brother practitioners in England—and I confess I expected to find, on my return to this country, the Russian method and Russian remedy in full operation. The contrary, however, proved to be the case, and the Russian mode of treating Cholera did not attract the attention it unquestionably deserved. The letter describing that mode had indeed been copied from the Times into three or four other Eng- lish journals, and also in the Galignani of Paris. It was quoted and favourably commented upon by the Medical Gazette, and the Pharmaceutical Journal of London; but I was never able to discover that any attempt had been made by English medical practi- tioners to give the system a trial, or to become acquainted with the medicine. And yet the signal failure of all the methods of cure then employed in Euglaud, numerous, multi- farious, and contradictory as they were, and which did not prevent the weekly number of 823 deaths in the metropolis on the lltli of August, 1849, to