Cholera as it has recently appeared in the towns of Newcastle and Gateshead : including cases illustrative of its physiology and pathology : with a view to the establishment of sound principles of practice / by T.M. Greenhow.

  • Greenhow T. M. (Thomas Michael), 1791-1881.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Cholera as it has recently appeared in the towns of Newcastle and Gateshead : including cases illustrative of its physiology and pathology : with a view to the establishment of sound principles of practice / by T.M. Greenhow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be the efforts, too much cannot be attempted, to resist or modify the progress, or throw light upon the treatment of, a disease of unexampled malig- nity and fatality, in the modern annals of British Medicine. With all its imperfections, then, as regards the conception or execution of my little work, I com- mit it, with perfect good faith, to the candid con- sideration and criticism of the Profession, not doubting that its merits, if it have any, will be acknowledged with liberality, and its faults, of which I doubt not it will contain many, will re- ceive ample indulgence. To the several professional friends who have favoured me with information, I offer my best thanks. They are particularly due to Mr. Green, of Sunderland, and to the gentlemen of Gateshead whose communications appear in the Appendix ; but they must not be omitted to several friends in Newcastle who have assisted me in the objects I had proposed to myself in drawing up this little Essay. To Mr. Baird, more especially, I must ex- press my obligation, for his full and explicit com- munication on the subject of the Tobacco Enema. The cases, derived from various sources, which 1 have introduced, are given in the words of the gentlemen in whose practice they occurred ; and