Papers relative to the disease called cholera spasmodica in India, now prevailing in the North of Europe / Printed by authority of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

  • Great Britain. Privy Council.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Papers relative to the disease called cholera spasmodica in India, now prevailing in the North of Europe / Printed by authority of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vestigate the nature of the same dreadful malady now raging at St. Petersburg!]. The Board refers medical practitioners to the reports above mentioned generally ; but as they are not acces¬ sible to many individuals, from the circumstance of their not having been published, it more particularly calls their attention to the statement drawn up by Sir Gilbert Blane, and inserted in Yob XI. of the Trans¬ actions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, the correct¬ ness of which has been verified to a Committee of the College of Physicians by Dr. Russell, formerly resident in Calcutta, during the prevalence of this disease;—to the works of Mr. Annesley on the Diseases of India ;— to an Essay on the Cholera by Mr. George Hamilton Bellto other works by gentlemen formerly practi¬ tioners in that country, which are now before the public; and to the ‘ History of the Epidemic Spas¬ modic Cholera of Russia/ by Dr. Bisset Hawkins. Description of the Disease. The attack of the disease in extreme cases is so sud¬ den, that, from a state of apparent good health, or with the feeling only of trifling ailment, an individual sustains as rapid a loss of bodily power as if he were suddenly struck down, or placed under the immediate effects of some poison ; the countenance assuming a death-like appearance, the skin becoming cold, and giving to the hand (as expressed by some observers) the sensation of coldness and moisture which is perceived on touching a frog; by others represented