Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea ; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera, as treated in the Royal Free Hospital during the years 1832, 1833 and 1834 / by William Marsden.

  • Marsden, William, 1796-1867.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea ; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera, as treated in the Royal Free Hospital during the years 1832, 1833 and 1834 / by William Marsden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tise, I must beg to remark, that it was during the years 1832, 1833, and 1834, that my deductions were drawn, when your Hospital was the only one in the Metropolis that freely admitted Cholera Patients,— all of whom were intrusted to my care; and although from 1834 to the present time, October 1848, there has been an annual average of more than two thousand cases of Diarrhoea, not a single instance of Asiatic Cholera has been met with ; but, should the disease have now re-visited this country, as it is thought to have done, and should it become generally prevalent, I feel confident that the doors of the Royal Free Hospital will be again opened, as before to the sufferers, and I need scarcely assure you of my zealous co-operation with your other Medical Offi- cers in meeting the danger. Permit me to avail myself of the pre- sent opportunity of acknowledging, with