On cholera, more especially as it has occurred during late years in British India, a letter addressed to Sir James M'Grigor, M.D.

  • Brown, Thomas (Surgeon)
Date:
1824
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Credit: On cholera, more especially as it has occurred during late years in British India, a letter addressed to Sir James M'Grigor, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Finding, however, my time would not per- mit me to enter upon a discussion of the sub- ject so fully as I could have wished, and, at the same time, entertaining no doubt that, in a very short period, the whole phenomena and treatment of the disease would be com- pletely illustrated and established, I deferred my intention ; but as this very desirable event appears to me never to have arrived, and in- deed, from recent accounts, to be nearly as distant as ever, I have been tempted to offer the following observations for your consi- deration. I hope it will not appear altoge- ther presumptuous in an individual, situated in so northern a latitude, to attempt explain- ing the nature of this disease, and offering directions for its treatment, when I inform you, that in 1796, 1798, and in 1800, I wit- nessed this disorder so general and so violent, as to call to it my particular attention, and it has given me much pleasure and satisfac- tion to find, that the view of the disease I then took, and the treatment which it conse- quently led me to follow, have been ultimate- ly found most beneficial in combating the Cholera of India.