A report, &c. on cholera morbus / By Darwin Chawner.

  • Chawner, Darwin.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A report, &c. on cholera morbus / By Darwin Chawner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the stag-e is with difficulty distinguished. The Premonitory class of symptoms consist of a disordered state of the stomach and bowels, in many instances so slight as not to have attracted attention until strictly enquired into ; but when particularly questioned it will be found that the patient has experienced slight affections in his bowels for a few days, of wliich he took no notice, having suffered no pain; his appetite remained good, and he continued his usual employment, until these slight symptoms became so urgent, as to com- pel him to have recourse to medical assistance. This stage commonly begins in the night or early in the morning. At this time the patient suffers from pain in the stomach and bowels, accompanied with diarrhoea, his spirits are much depressed, and his evacuations are sometimes dark and offensive : they become watery and mingled with unhealthy faeces : they shortly assume the appearance of rice GRUEL. In some instances 1 have seen this peculiarity at the commencement, attended with occasional vomitings of the same kind of matter. Cramp accompanies these symptoms, and becomes gradually more violent and fre- quent. The cramp and vomiting curiously commence and recur together. The pulse in