Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea : better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera : as treated in the Royal Free Hospital during the years 1832, 1833, 1834, 1848, & 1854 / by William Marsden.

  • William Marsden
Date:
1865
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Credit: Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea : better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera : as treated in the Royal Free Hospital during the years 1832, 1833, 1834, 1848, & 1854 / by William Marsden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many patients were treated by large doses of common salt only; and tiie two following cases are given to show that this plan of treatment (published in the Lancet, on the 9th of August^ 1834, by Mr. Beaman) was by no means new : it certainly arrested the progress of the malady, but all the patients so treated, died; yet the plan approaches nearer to the principle advanced by me, than any other: indeed, it is only a modification of the same remedy. Philip Claek, aged twenty-seven years, by trade a chemist and druggist, from Lincoln, was admitted July 4th, 1832, at ten o^clock a.m. One ounce of salt, dissolved in half a pint of water, was given every hour, till four o^clock, p.m. on the following day, when he expired. Geoege Hill, aged fifty-three years, from No. 14, Fleur-de-lis Court, Fleet Street, admitted at eleven o^clock, a.m. July Cth, 1832. Treated after the like manner—died at seven o^clock, p.m. the same day. All the patients treated after this mode had the hot saline bath.
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