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

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    The appearance of bile in the evacuations is one of the most favourable indications ac- companying the amelioration of the disease, and of the cases which have come under my own observation, those in which it wTas exhi- bited, though only in a slight degree, were generally the most easily cured; the cases in which no such appearance was manifested, being on the contrary the most difficult, and generally the most fatal. In the milder cases of cholera, that is such as do not exhibit the appalling symptoms of collapse, displaying at the worst, only a tendency towards it, with slight vomiting and purging, fever but seldom occurs after the mitigation of these symptoms, and, even when it does, rarely assumes a typhoid character, or continues beyond a few days. In the more severe cases, fever of a typhoid type very frequently succeeds the stage of collapse, being often as difficult of cure as the previous disorder, and always much more tedious. The instances are com- paratively few, in which consecutive fever, partaking more or less of the nature of typhus, does not succeed the melioration of the severe symptoms. Whether the organs of the chest, the head, or the abdomen, are particularly affected, the accompanying fever is generally of this character.