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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    ing for the different steps in the morbid pro- cess which gradually evolves the appalling symptoms of cholera. Before we examine in detail the several parts of the nervous system, which have been individually regarded as pri- marily affected in this disease, and as being the cause of its characteristic phenomena, it may he well to consider the manner in which this system is generally liable to become dis- ordered, since we shall thus he much better prepared to investigate any of its various sub- divisions. There is no decided evidence that the nervous system is particularly, if at all, af- fected in the premonitory indications of the malady. Diarrhoea may exist alone for several days, during which time the bowels may he so slightly disturbed as not at all to interfere with the ordinary avocations of the patient, or scarcely, indeed, to produce a painful sen- sation. As this symptom has very frequently preceded the unequivocal phenomena of the disease, it is just to consider it, in such in- stances, as the first step in the morbid pro- cess. Diarrhoea may, perhaps, be defined as arising from an irritated condition of the mucous follicles, or secretory organs, of some