Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera [as treated in the London General Institution (Royal Free Hospital), during the years 1832, 1833, and 1834] / [William Marsden].

  • Marsden, William, 1796-1867
Date:
1848
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Credit: Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea; better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera [as treated in the London General Institution (Royal Free Hospital), during the years 1832, 1833, and 1834] / [William Marsden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]3 •During the existence of the disease in 1832, the directions for treatment, profes- sional and domestic, issued by the Board, were alone founded on empirical principles, yet, notwithstanding those erroneous mea- sures, all might have been rectified, had the Board, at the time, with every facility for so doing, proceeded to a public and impartial investigation of the nature and treatment of the malady.* The disease has now paid us a third visitation ; and it is saying but little for the character of our medical institutions, when I assert that up to the present time, nothing has issued to guide the profession in the treatment of such cases, either from the College of Phy- sicians, or from the College of Surgeons. * I very much question whether Sir Henry Halford, whose signature was attached to the circular issued by the Government Board, ever personally attended a single case of Cholera. I have good reason to believe that he never did.