The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French.

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The smell of a Cholera patient is so peculiar, that the disease may be sometimes recognised before the patient is seen; but it is not yet ascertained on what this smell depends. Coma usually precedes the death of the patient; adults rarely recover when this condition has super- vened, but with children this symptom has readily disappeared on the application of leeches. To the morbid ajppearances which the heart pre- sents, we believe sufficient attention is not generally paid : we have invariably found its texture flabby, compared with that of the muscles, which has been unusually firm. Of the altered condition of the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, it may be remarked that this aff'ection is not inflammation, as has been sup- posed by some writers : all our previous knowledge of this action is at variance with the phenomena presented in Cholera. Majendie has demonstrated by an ingenious experiment the difference between real inflammation and the congestion in this disease; he found that the colouring matter could be easily