The philosophy of epidemic cholera : being at attempt to unravel its mystery; to disarm its terrors; to account for its phenomena by the ordinary laws of morbid action; to develope the true pathological condition of the body in its various stages; to demonstrate the inutility of hospitals and quarantines; to enforce the system of domiciliary visiting; and to unfold a mode of treatment at once safe, scientific, and successful - a remedy within reach of every housekeeper, and applied without cost, risk, or delay / by John Balbirnie, M.A., M.D.

  • Balbirnie, John, 1810-1895.
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[1849]
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Credit: The philosophy of epidemic cholera : being at attempt to unravel its mystery; to disarm its terrors; to account for its phenomena by the ordinary laws of morbid action; to develope the true pathological condition of the body in its various stages; to demonstrate the inutility of hospitals and quarantines; to enforce the system of domiciliary visiting; and to unfold a mode of treatment at once safe, scientific, and successful - a remedy within reach of every housekeeper, and applied without cost, risk, or delay / by John Balbirnie, M.A., M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SYMPTOMS OF CHOLERA. It will tend to a clearer development of the course, characters, and grades of the malady, to consider it in the four stages into which it naturally divides itself. First Stage—commonly called the 'premonitory stage. The phenomena which mark the onset of the disease remain more or less its leading characteristics throughout. They are as follows. White, furred, slimy tongue ; want of appetite, or food remaining long on the stomach; weight, oppression, faintness, or a sinking, empty feeling at the stomach pit; numbness, giddiness, lightness of the head; debility, distress, anxi- ety, tremors ; sharp features, shrunk skin ; rumbling in the bowels ; diarrhoea, milder or severer—at first the natural contents of the bowels, then milky matters (unabsorbed chyle), till it becomes transparent—often attended with pain, oftener without. The pulse is natural, or only slightly accelerated; the surface is dry ; the urine scanty, and voided with difficulty; cold clammy feet; small alvine dejections, but withal a feeling as if the whole bowels were being expelled. There is an entire absence of biliary matter in the secre- tions : to this there are but rare exceptions. In the majority of cases more or fewer of these symptoms prevail for several days. According to their measure and lapidity, the languor, debility, emaciation, mental and bodily prostration of the patient increase and usher in. i he second or algide stage. The bowels now become affected at intervals of a few minutes. The ejections are clear, transparent, like whey or rice water, accompanied with sickness and vomiting of the same sort of matters. Thirst increases apace,