Observations on the history and treatment of cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared at Haddington, showing that is is not necessarily infectious : and including an account of the use of galvanism in the stage of collapse : with an appendix of cases / by Robert Lorimer and John Burton.

  • Lorimer, Robert, -1867.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the history and treatment of cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared at Haddington, showing that is is not necessarily infectious : and including an account of the use of galvanism in the stage of collapse : with an appendix of cases / by Robert Lorimer and John Burton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) ^ INTRODUCTION. IIt is not intended in the folloAving pages to enter into any detailed account of the Cholera Asphyxia. Lengthened treatises, comprising all that is yet known in regard to it, are already before the public and the profession. The sole object of the Authors is to state the conclusions to which they have been led in regard to its Mode of Propagation, and the Treatment most kw- useful in its different stages. They are most , will- ing to admit that, in some of the cases (as will be I seen by a reference to the appendix), there may 1^1 have been errors in practice; but they suspect that these are almost unavoidable in contending for the i ! first time, with a disease so new and formidable in its features, so rapid in its progress, and regarding which no fixed and determinate principles of medical treat- ment have as yet been adopted. A 2