Memoir on the cholera morbus of India / By P.F. Keraudren ... Translated from the French.

  • Keraudren, P.F. (Pierre François)
Date:
1831
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    easonable to hope that the cardialgia, vomiting, and ,r, in a word, that the symptoms principally dependent on ill yield to the employment of soothing, antispasmodic, and revulsive, remedies. Thus, then, in the first stage, It either succumbs to the nervous or convulsive state, or toms are dissipated, as seen in the particular cases 1 have ind the health is re-estabhshed by a mild and moderate VSiS also the mode of treatment partly followed by M. le luet in H. M. S. Ci/bele, and by M. Lefever in the {. On the 14th of August 1817, the first of these vessels rom a cruise on the Chinese sea, and laid-to at Malacca, li provisions were laid in for the crew. She again weighed the 18th, and continued to cruise in the Straits. On the he 4th day after her departure, several of the crew were h vomiting, alvine dejections, and evacuations, which m to quit their watch. The violence of the phenomena, ss of the countenance, the Aveakness of the pulse, the f the extremities, and the utter prostration of strength, e utmost alarm. It being impossible to mistake the ■)£ a fixed irritation in the digestive organs, notwith- lany of the symptoms, M. Huet had recourse to soothing aginous drinks. He employed rice-water injections, 1 infusion, and caused oib/ embrocations to be applied )men. These simple means were often sufficient to calm id moderate the evacuations ; but if the violence of the continued, M. Huet gave etlier and opium with 22d January, 1822, His Majesty's frigate Cleopatra • in the Manilla road, Philippine Islands. On the e?'a showed itself on board, and on the following days, • of men attacked became so great, that on the 7th day er Courson de la Ville Helio, commander of the frigate, for her departure for Macao. The number of cases risen to 32, and seven had died. Eight days after nilla, no new cases had occurred. The details of the rescribed by M. Lefevre will be found among the cases 3 commencement of this memoir. I shall here limit myself to the quotation of one of his remarks: I could not, he says, «* persevere long in the employment of sooihivg drinks. From