Of pestilential cholera : its nature, prevention, and curative treatment / by James Copland.

Date:
1832
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    evinced in the weak Hindoo, or in the previously debili- tated, of whatever race, but sometimes in the stronger or less predisposed in India, and often in Europe. (22.) From the aggravated state which has been now described but very few recover, particularly if that state have existed as long as three or four hours before active treatment has been resorted to. * A thread of pulse, * however small, is almost always felt at the wrist, where * recovery from this state is to be expected. Fliccough * coming on in the intermediate moments between the ' threatening of death and the beginning of re-action, is ' a favourable sign, and generally announces the return * of circulation. In less severe cases, the pulse is not * wholly extinguished, though much reduced in volume: ' the respiration is less embarrassed ; the oppression and ' anguish at the chest are not so overwhelming, although ' vomiting and purging and the cramps may have been ' more intense. The coldness and change of colour of * the surface, the peculiar alteration of the voice, a ' greater or less degree of coldness of the tongue, the * character of the liquids evacuated, are invariably well * marked in all the degrees of violence of attack which * we have hitherto witnessed in this epidemic. In na * case or stage of this disease have we observed shiver- ' ing; nor have we heard, after inquiry, of more than ' one case, in which this febrile symptom took place*.' (23.) C. The Consecutive Phenomena of this malady vary considerably. In the East, when recovery took place from the previous state, it was often rapid and without much subsequent disease having been expe- * Report from St. Petersburgh, by Drs. Barry and Russell. C