Treatise on cholera asphyxia, or epidemic cholera, as it appeared in Asia, and more recently in Europe. With practical remarks on the disease in Europe, an appendix of cases, and the reports and regulations of the Boards of Health of London and Edinburgh / by George Hamilton Bell.

  • Bell, George Hamilton.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Treatise on cholera asphyxia, or epidemic cholera, as it appeared in Asia, and more recently in Europe. With practical remarks on the disease in Europe, an appendix of cases, and the reports and regulations of the Boards of Health of London and Edinburgh / by George Hamilton Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION V. PREDISPOSING CAUSES OF THE DISEASE. HavING as yet found no reason to alter the opi- nions as to the non-contagious nature of Cholera, which I formed after much experience of the disease, and the most serious consideration ; and having in the preceding section fully discussed the subject, it now becomes necessary to pomt out some of those col- lateral circumstances which have been found to in- fluence the dissemination of the disease. I. Whatever has a tendency to depress the gene- ral powers of life, may be regarded as an exciting cause of a disease which has its source in a failure of one of the principal powers of the system; such as fatigue, cold, hunger, a debauch, mental anxiety, de- pressing passions, &c. II. Every thing likely to produce chylopoetic de- rangements—unwholesome food, unripe fruit, or in- dulgence to excess in fruit, or acescent vegetables— are to be dreaded during the prevalence of a disease which so immediately destroys the source of all the abdominal functions. IIL. Whatever is likely to determine the fluids of the body to the alimentary canal, seems to act as an exciting cause of Cholera.