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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    efficacious there, were, in some instances, too bold to be adopted by us. Bleeding to syncope, and the exhibition of large doses of calomel could not possibly be suggested by the cases ordinarily occurring in this country, and yet these were employed with propriety and benefit on many occasions in the East. Writers of unquestioned veracity state, that the disease was often immediately arrested by copious vene- section, and the patient restored almost as suddenly to comparative health. The efficacy of the practice was not restricted to a few cases only, but was observed in great numbers. It would not be difficult to shew, that the cir- cumstances demanding such prompt and active treatment were different, at least in degree, from those which prevailed here. The class of persons attacked with us, were the lowest and most destitute of society, debilitated by poor living or dissipated habits, or severe premonitory diarrhoea. In the East, the epi- demic was less partial in its ravages. Persons of all ranks and of the most exemplary moral conduct were its victims. These are import- ant distinctions. They seem to prove, that the exciting cause, whatever might be its na- ture, was more powerfully exerted in the latter, than in the former instances. With us, to pro-