Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / translated by T. F.Reynolds.

  • Aretaeus, of Cappadocia.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / translated by T. F.Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CHAPTER V. ON CHOLERA. Cholera is a retrograde motion of the material of the whole frame into the oesophagus, stomach, and intestines, and is a very severe disorder. What is accumulated in the oesophagus runs off by vomiting, while what is in the stomach and intestines passes below. The first discharges that are thrown off by sickness have a watery look, while those by stool are fluid, stercoraceous, and offensive. This disease is caused by continued crudities, which, when they are washed out, are followed first by slimy, then by bilious evacuations : the first are readily brought away without pain. Afterwards there is tightness in the oesophagus and griping in the belly. If the disorder get worse, the gripings become severer, fainting supervenes, the limbs refuse their support, there is anxiety, and loathing of food ; or if any be taken, it is attended with the vomiting of bile of an exceedingly yellow colour, which comes away with a gush and nausea; the stools have the same appearance, while spasms and cramps arise in the calves of the legs and in the arms ; the fingers become bent; dizziness and hiccough come on; the nails are