Observations, pathological and therapeutic, on the epidemic cholera as it has prevailed in Edinburgh and its vicinity / by David Craigie.

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[1833?]
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Credit: Observations, pathological and therapeutic, on the epidemic cholera as it has prevailed in Edinburgh and its vicinity / by David Craigie. 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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    exertions of these gentlemen, indeed, the Castle-Hill Hospital owes a large proportion of any utility which it has rendered to the inhabitants of that neighbourhood. And, lastly, I think it fair to conclude, that, under the use of local depletion from the region of the kidneys, and the other auxiliaries, during the stage of reaction, for instance, the frequent use of the turpen- tine enema, and the cold affusion, several cases have recovered from this stage, which must otherwise have sunk under it. Explanation of the Figures. Fig. 1. Appearance of tl\c agminated glands of Peyer, and the isolated glands, in the adult dead of cholera. Fig. 2. Appearance of the agminated glands of Peyer in children cut off by cholera. Fig. 3. Appearance of the patches of the colon described in p. 43. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY JOHN STaRK, Old Assembly Close.