Volume 2

An inquiry into the principles and practice of medicine : founded on original physiological investigations / by G. Calvert Holland.

  • Holland, G. C. (George Calvert), 1801-1865.
Date:
1834-1838
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    quick pulse, often small and unequal, heat, and anxiety, nausea, and colliquative sweats, spasms of the arms and legs, fainting, coldness ol the extremities, and other symptoms of equal danger, which terrify the bystanders, and kill the patient in twenty-four hours.” The disease is of more frequent occurrence in India than in this country, and as it is there generally distinguished by strong spasms, it has been designated by many authors spas- modic cholera. “ The attack is generally ushered in by a sense of weakness, trembling, giddiness, nausea, violent retching, vomiting, and purging, of a watery starchey whey-co- loured greenish fluid. These symptoms are accompanied, or quickly followed, by severe cramps, generally beginning in the fingers and toes, and thence extending to the wrists, and fore arms, calves of the legs, thighs, abdomen, and lower part of the thorax. These are soon succeeded by pain, constrictions and oppression of the stomach and praecordia, great sense of internal heat, inordinate thirst, and incessant calls for cold water, which is no sooner swal- lowed than rejected, together with a quan- tity of phlegm or whitish fluid like seeth- ings of oatmeal. The actions of the heart and arteries now nearly cease; the pulse