The cholera spasmodica, as observed in Paris in 1832 : comprising its symptoms, pathology, and treatment.

  • Smith, Ashbel, 1805-1886.
Date:
1832
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Credit: The cholera spasmodica, as observed in Paris in 1832 : comprising its symptoms, pathology, and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    12/90 (page vi)
    That it may appear that I have had abundant opportunities for studying the cholera, I think it proper to mention, that during the prevalence of this epidemic, I was officially attached to Necker Hospital, where I remained the greater part of each day; that I not only heard the medical pre- scriptions, but was charged with much provisional and active service in their administration; that I watched their effects, and recorded them at the bedside of the patient. Notwithstanding the redundancies and repeti- tions contained in what I have written, I should have found it much easier to write a book on the subject than to compress my materials into a pamphlet. To keep this within a proper size, I have omitted some things, and briefly touched on others where I wished to be much more full. Some slight omissions are a consequence of the despatch I was obliged to use in arranging my facts. I had also intended to publish many more cases, but I considered it would swell this publication to an inconvenient bulk to add a sufficient number to enable the reader to draw conclusions from them. For this purpose, less than fifty or a hundred would be of little use; I have therefore concluded to give a few cases as specimens, and to occupy my pages with a digest of the symptoms and treatment, made from the whole number in my possession.