British cholera : its nature and causes considered in connexion with sanitary improvement, and in comparison with Asiatic cholera / by Spencer Thomson.

  • Thomson Spencer, -1886.
Date:
1848
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    tion made, as far as the British disease is concerned, and though feeling that upon it we may legitimately base our arguments, we are scarcely entitled to a similar privilege in the case of the Asiatic, how- ever sure we may be of the correctness of the theory. The assumption is not required; compa- rison of the individual features of the two diseases display too many points of difference to allow of their being classed as modifications, even of the same affection. We have seen that British or Bilious Cholera is dependent for its development upon a certain degree and continuance of elevated temperature, either in this or other countries ; it is gradual in its rise, keeps pace with the high tem- perature; its approach, marked, individually and collectively, by well-defined initiatory symptoms of some duration, it affects uniformly—under certain modifications—the whole district exposed to the exciting cause. On the other hand, Asiatic Cholera, whilst apparently exhibiting extreme capriciousness in its spreading, still holds on its steady course in certain general directions over the world; unin- fluenced by temperature, not prevented by the wind, it attacks one place after another, and seizes its victims, almost without one warning symptom. But we have both diseases called by one generic name, and that name derived from the similar prominent symptoms exhibited by each—the violent