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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    PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. In a country like England, it is an ex- traordinary fact, that with all -her increased knowledge, and boasted perfection of legis- lation, she has no permanent watch over the health of the community; and it is only within the last few weeks of the present year, that a Board of Health has been established, but on any thing like just or sound principles. On the first appearance of this unknown disease in London, medical men of every grade, more particularly those in the higher walks of the profession, on viewing the afflicted patient, became terrified and panic- struck ; and the public, in consequence of their professional advisers being ignorant of the nature of this malady, become para- lyzed. In this state of things, and to pro- duce all the consternation possible, the richly endowed hospitals of this Metropolis closed their doors against the wretched sufferers,—the affluent inhabitants fled,—