Observations on the history and treatment of cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared at Haddington, showing that is is not necessarily infectious : and including an account of the use of galvanism in the stage of collapse. With an appendix of cases / by Robert Lorimer and John Burton.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the history and treatment of cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared at Haddington, showing that is is not necessarily infectious : and including an account of the use of galvanism in the stage of collapse. With an appendix of cases / by Robert Lorimer and John Burton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    In a great many of tin* eases, the attack supervened very shortly after excess in the use of ardent spirits, and in one or two melancholy instances, the patients were on- ly roused to consciousness from the stupor of intoxication, by the distressing urgency of the symptoms of collapse. All such cases perished, without being in any wav relieved by the means used. May this fact serve as a warning to the intemperate! In justice to the practitioners here, it ought to be stated, that no cases were reported designedly, but such as had pathognomonic symptoms of Cholera. Five or six not decided cases were reported, being found under circumstances which increased the probability of their having the disease. ABSTRAC T OK CHOLERA CASKS. Parish ok IUoniNOTON, 23d February. Deaths, 54 Men. 2*2 Women. 30 Bov*. 0 Girls. 2 Recoveries, 70 28 35 1 6 Remaining, 1 0 1 0 0 — — — — — Total cases. 125 • being 50 men, 0C> women. 1 boy, 8 girls. • The proportion of children attacked seems remarkably small, and may be considered as another proof, that this disease is not one of great contagious power. There were only three of the cases domestic servants (all mild), another curious fact leading to the same conclusion. b 2