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.

  • Marsden, William, 1796-1867.
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    MALIGNANT CHOLERA IN LONDON. Comjxirative View of the various Modes of Treatment ado'pted in Cholera, within the jurisdiction of the City of London Board of Healthy transmitted hy Me. J. F. De Grave. Calomel and Opium Opium Calomel Stimulants Combination of Salts pro- posed by Dr. Stevens Combination of Salts used at the Free Ho?;pital ... Venous injection, in ditto . Miscellaneous Cases. Deaths. Reco- Deaths Reco- veries ■ percent. 196 112 84 57-14 42-86 81 47 34 58- 42- 75 35 40 46-66 53-34 63 42 21 66-66 33-33 25 22 3 88- 12- 26 8 18 30-77 69-32 20 18 2 0- 10- 17 8 9 47-06 52-94 PRECAUTIONAEY MEASURES. In order to preserve the healthy from an attack of this disease, the following plan of diet and medicine should be pursued. Animal and vegetable food, well cooked, may be taken once or twice a day ', fish, if quite fresh, is not objectionable ; and to persons who do not take wine daily, malt liquor in moderate quantity is in general the best beverage : wine drinkers should not exceed from four to six glasses of the best Port, and that ought not to be taken sooner than one hour and a half after dinner ; tea or coffee taken early after dinner, is at all times bad; and spirit and w^ater.