Observations on the pestilential cholera (asphyxia pestilenta) as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831; and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth.

  • Ainsworth, William, 1807-1896.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the pestilential cholera (asphyxia pestilenta) as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831; and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hospital No. 1 at Berlin, of seventy to eighty attendants, eleven had Asphyxia, and thirty-five others this diarrhoea, with vomiting, &c. This leads me to the more important consideration of the sudden attack of the disease; and during its prevalence in the town of Sunderland, I only heard of one case of that kind, and which I visited in company with Dr. Clanny. This was a case in which the patient, a strong, healthy sailor, was putting on his hat to go on board ship, when he fell suddenly down, having lost all muscular power, which symptoms were followed by violent pain in the prsecordia, and constriction, without purging or vomiting. This man was bled to the amount of sixteen ounces: he had sinapisms placed on the region of the stomach ; and he convalesced by the next morning, under a very simple treatment. Mr. Kennedy gave it me as his opinion that this was a decided case of Asphyxia, and I think there can be no doubt on the subject. It appears that, as an insidious disease, those chemical changes, or that morbid action which produces an altera- tion in the nature of the blood, may go on almost without disturbing the health of the