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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    is conducted, the lives of thousands have been saved; and in arresting the influence of contagious disorders, its benefits are in- calculable : sinee its foundation, in 1828, to the present time, upwards of two hundred thousand persons have been successfully treated, and restored from the most loath- some maladies to health and comfort. Up- wards of three hundred patients suffering from the second stage of Cholera were ad- mitted into the Hospital: at first, nearly every one died, although every plan of treatment that could be recommended was adopted; and it was only in despair that a mode of treatment, suggested by Dr. Ste- vens, was tried. Through the effects of that treatment a glimmering ray of liope was first discovered, and on which, the practice now pursued, and laid down in the following paper, has been matured ; and on this ])lan alone, do 1 believe it possible for the life of a single patient to