To Dr. Cormack, editor of Association Medical Journal.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870.
Date:
[1855]
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Credit: To Dr. Cormack, editor of Association Medical Journal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    To DR. CORMACK, EDITOR OF ASSOCIATION MEDICAL JOURNAL. Sir, In the note at the bottom of my letter, inserted in your number of the 20th Instant, you have asked for proof—that an individual can be walking about for pleasure, or for business, after the blood has ceased to circulate, and his heart has ceased to beat, in consequence of labouring under a diarrhoea. There are three ways of giving you this proof: the first, by appealing to my own observations : the second, by appealing to the observations of others : and the third, by appealing to the future observations of the profession. 1st. As to my own observations. When Epidemic Cholera raged in Paris in 1832, I was re- quested one evening to call the next morning on a gentleman, who, I was told, was not ill, but who found that his voice had suddenly become weak : so much so, that he could speak only in a whisper. I pointed out to my informant that I apprehended his friend was attacked with cholera, and I decided to go immediately to see his friend. On arriving at his hotel, we found that he was at the Gallery of the Museum of the Louvre, where he had been all the day with a party of friends amusing himself; visiting the different monuments of antiquity in that establishment. In about a quarter of an hour he returned home to his hotel, _^ jtuated Rue Vivienne, on foot, and walked up two pair of stairs