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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    they had not lost one. They gave two table-spoonsful of common salt in six ounces of hot water at once; and one tablespoonful of a similar mixture, cold, every hour afterwards. They always begin by bleeding. 1 But in the ordinary way of treating the disease, suppose the first stage safely past, very rarely indeed, not five times in the hundred, does the patient return to health without passing through a dangerous fever, &c. Mr. Searle was himself aifected with Cholera. The treatment of his own case consisted almost ex- clusively in drinking cold water very frequently, yet, being convinced that stimulants are indicated^ he recommends to others, strong brandy and water —one part spirit to two of hot water*. The valuable paper of Mr. J. Freeland Fergus, » informs us of what happened at Vienna, with re- spect to the treatment of Cholera. The efi'ect of the treatment employed during * Searle on Cholera.