History and medical treatment of cholera : as it appeared in Sunderland in 1831 / by W. Haslewood and W. Mordey.

  • Haslewood, W. (William), 1802?-1866.
Date:
1832
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Credit: History and medical treatment of cholera : as it appeared in Sunderland in 1831 / by W. Haslewood and W. Mordey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disease. When a person continues long in attend- ance in the houses of Cholera patients he will find that his vital energies are gradually diminished ; that digestion is impaired ; and that his sleep is disturbed with cramp, or other uneasy sensations. We be- lieve few persons have been actively employed in attending the poor in the present epidemic without feeling more or less of these sensations. Enough has been said of the importance of early attention to such indications. Age and Sex. — With the exception of old age, no period of life seemed to have any peculiar liability to attack. The infant of Mary Anne Ni- cholson, a patient in the hospital, whose case is reported, died of the disease. It was five months old, and sunk at once into collapse, after having shown symptoms of uneasiness the preceding day. Another child, about a year old, died; and several others from two years upwards. In one of our visits we found two mothers, living in the same house, each with a child dying in her arms. The disease usually carried them off in a few hours ; the vomiting and purging were very trifling, and cramp seldom occurred. Complete collapse came on at once 5 the eyes were frightfully sunk in their sockets , the skin deadly cold, and of a dark leaden hue ; they never cried, and would generally swallow what was given to them. In very young children, the cheeks did not shrink j which afforded a strik- ing contrast to the sunken eye. The appearance of the blue skin and hollow eye in childhood has something so unnatural, that the impression is most unpleasant, and can scarcely be afterwards effaced. The great majority of females attacked is a differ-