Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / by William Stevens.

Date:
1853
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Credit: Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / by William Stevens. 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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    the Free Hospital in Greville Street, had been found in the City of London by far the best plan of treatment in the Cholera, for in all the cases in which it had been tried, Mr. Marsden’s practice had reduced the mortality to thirty per cent. On the other hand, it was asserted in’ the same document that the opposite saline treatment, or the practice that had been recommended by myself, had caused in the City a mortality of eighty-eight per cent, in all the cases in which it had been used by the medical parties that had been acting under the direction of the medical members of the City Board in 1832. The above official return from the City to the Central Board was signed by J. F. De Grave, the Honorary Secretary to the City Board, who for- warded at the same time to the Central Board another official return from Mr. Marsden, to prove that his own saline treatment had been far more successful under his own management, than the same practice had been under the jurisdiction of the City of London Board of Health. For it was stated in Mr. Marsden’s official return, that in 315 patients in the first stage of cholera, only 4 had died consequently that 311 had recovered. It was also stated in the same return, that, in addition to the above 311 recoveries, 81 patients in the second or collapse stage of Cholera^ had been treated by Mr. Marsden exclusively on his own saline plan, with