The cause and cure of Asiatic or, malignant cholera / by John Adamson.

  • Adamson, John.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The cause and cure of Asiatic or, malignant cholera / by John Adamson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    U When In Halifax, in 1834, I used to take the doors ■ from off their hinges and remove them to the gardens, so ^ as to give the cholera patients pure fresh air, for if I left j them they were sure to have their doors all shut again in : the short space of an hour. In 1849, when cholera made its first appearance in i London, I sent my manuscript on this dire disease to the |j General Board of Health, and when I called to see them, f their secretary told me that they were just now thinking exactly as I had written 15 years ago, and from their di- rections to the people of Jamaica about the treatment of cholera, I find that they have taken a leaf out of my small work. I wrote a letter to Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies, advising him to secure a few copies of my work on cholera, for the Island of Jamaica, as also the editor of the Times, to give all concerned due notice of such a work being in the press. The General Board of Health (of London) have favoured me with a copy of their reports of cholera, which are to be presented to both Houses of! Parliament in February, 1851. I have not only read them | but studied them carefully,—I must admit that the phy- i sicians have laboured very hard indeed for the small re- { muneration they have received. They have collected an immense number of facts, valuable in themselves, but still they ought to have drawn conclusions more valuable for the young student, their division of cholera into diarahoea and collapse, appears faulty. I do not, in all their reports, see a single well defined symptom of true cholera; I hesitate not a moment to state that, in cholera there is a certain, and in fact, the only true sign of this dire disease, and this is the cold, icy hand, without almost any pulse at the