On the antidotal treatment of the epidemic cholera, with a sketch of the physiology of this disease, as deduced from that of intermittent fever / by John Parkin.

Date:
1835
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Credit: On the antidotal treatment of the epidemic cholera, with a sketch of the physiology of this disease, as deduced from that of intermittent fever / by John Parkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fore discussed, this remedy was given at different periods :—in the intervals ; during the cold stage; and in the fever stage. 1st. Administered on the intervening days of the accession—although, in some cases, the severity of the succeeding paroxysm was mitigated, and the disease itself, by a continuance in the same plan, subsequently cut short—yet, generally speaking, little or no perceptible effec-t was produced. But when given al>out an hour, or an hour mid a- half, before the expected jieriod of the accession, repeating the dose every half hour until the cold stage had become fairly established, the attack was not only rendered much shorter and comparatively mild, but the suceet'ding paroxysm was, in ordinari- cases, almost invariably prevented, provided the remedy was again admiuistenHl in the same manner on the subsequent day of the attack. In some instances the disease appeared to be cut short at the moment, as the accustomed paroxysm was not wi Inched. 2nd. In other cases, the patient commenced taking the remedy in the same manner, at the onset of the attack. The effect here was less niarke<l than before—the duration of the cold stage being nearly the same as in the prior attacks; but the severity of the fever stage was always sensibly dimi- nished. ITie reme<ly being administered at the same period on the subsc(jucnt day of the accession, the attack was oliscrved to be milder than licfore; and the patient, by a continuance in the same plan,