The nature and treatment of the epidemic cholera / [Robert Venables].

  • Venables, Robert
Date:
1832
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    hardness of fever, fully characterize the transition from the one stage to the other. Perhaps this is the best marked transition of the whole complaint. THE MORBID ANATOMY AND PATHOLOGY OF CHOLERA. The Morbid Anatomy of Diseases may be considered under three heads—namely, The morbid appearances which are essential, i, e. which are invariably observed. Secondly, Those which are accidental, that is no way necessary to constitute the complaint, but have arisen from the operation of previous causes, not connected with the existing disease; and, thirdly. Those which are consequential, and of course consecutive. It will hardly be necessary for me to enter here at any great length upon these subjects, after the full consideration I have given to them in the Cholera Gazette, the Lan¬ cet, &c. I can only say, that my more mature experi¬ ence has served to confirm me in the opinions which I have there advanced and maintained. I have now either opened myself, or assisted others, or have been present at the examination, of between three or four hundred bodies of persons who have died in the various stages of Cholera, and I must confess, that I have not met with any thing to induce me to change the views— so far as they go—which I have already advanced and maintained, on the morbid anatomy and pathology of Cholera. I shall, therefore here, only briefly recapitu- c