A practical sketch of the Asiatic cholera of 1848 : its rationale and (presumed) pathology / by S.F. Statham.

Date:
1852
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Credit: A practical sketch of the Asiatic cholera of 1848 : its rationale and (presumed) pathology / by S.F. Statham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cholera alter the hlootl so materially, if Cholera he due to an altered state of the blood, it seems to me that the way to discover these changes would be by examining the blood of patients attacked with diarrhoea, faintness, colic, &c., &c., during the Cholera time, and in an infected place. I cannot very well conceive the blood filtering through the mucous membrane in only one portion of its extent, and believe that in all diarrhoeas either determination, congestion, or inflammation of the mucous membrane actually occurs, and that this change of the blood- vessels is the cause of the symptoms. I should expect that in diarrhoeas during the Cholera, the pathological changes may be those of mere reaction to the poison; perhaps in choleroid diarrhoea there is commencing inflammation, and in algide cholera extended inflammation, affecting perhaps two-thirds or more of the whole intestinal track. (See P.M.E.’s. of Elizabeth T., Hannah D., and Eanny D.) It seems probable that the cases entitled in the parish book as Cholera, in which algide symptoms were not marked, were cases where the peculiar action causing algide depression had been present, but had quickly ceased, and those symptoms due to the altered state of the blood supervened. THE END. i.oxdox : BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WH1TBFR1AR8.