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.

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    ‘21 pulse (the strength of the latter being generally tinder what might have been supposed its natural amount) some degree of irk ness, and occasionally vomiting. Praecordial uneasiness has not existed to any considerable degree as a premonitory symptom, but has seldom been wanting in a more advanced stage of the disease. It has always been prominent and distressing, when the attack was violent and sudden in young subjects of considerable natural vi- gour. Cases 4th, 5th, and 6th. In one instance only, so far as is known, were crampish twitches in the lingers, the first indication of an impend- ing attack; and these were experienced at intervals, with- out any other symptom for some hours previous to its commencement. In regard to the premonitory symptoms generally, it may be observed, that their intensity and combinations with each other in different case* were most various, and their duration most uncertain. When diarrhoea had ex- isted for a considerable time, unconnected with any other premonitory symptom, the subsequent progress of the disease, if not arrested, has been generally very rapid, and the result fatal ; while in those cast's ushered in by pyrexia! symptoms, or a state of indefinable maUitie, the attack has been of a milder and more manageable charac- ter, probably from the patient being compelled to surren- der himself to proper treatment at an earlier period. The 1 reatment most successful in combating the pre- monitory symptoms, is very simple, and has been found 'ery efficient. Diarrhoea with or without griping pain in