Diarrha and Cholera Author:John Chapman General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Trübner Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select... more » from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DIAKKHCEA. CHAPTER I. DIARRHOEA ORIGINATED BY HEAT. [!n discussing diarrhoea I shall designate and arrange its different forms according to my conception of their causes -- viz., as follows : 1. Dlarrihea Originated By Heat. 2. Dlarrhcea Originated By Motion. 3. Dlarrhcea Originated By (electricity, Or Its Analogue) Nervous Irritation. 4. Dlarrhcea Originated By The Mlnd (emotion). 5. Dlarrhcea Originated By Forms Of Force, Either Hitherto Unrecognised As Causes Of The Disease, Or The "modus Operandl" Of Which Remains Unknown. Having thus classed the various kinds of diarrhoea, I must observe emphatically that I do so only by way of recognition of the different aspects in which its cause presents itself; for I believe that, however diverse the forms which that cause assumes, it is always essentially one and the same. Heat; Motion; Electricity, or its analogue, generated by the irritation of the nerves of the alimentary canal; and Emotion (cerebral excitement), are correlative forces and fundamentally identical. When diarrhoea originates in a form, or forms, of force not seemingly identical witb some one of the four just mentioned, it is probable that such cases of organic disturbance are nevertheless due to one of them, although it is as yet impossible to discover the chain of causal connexion between it and the disease in question. Meanwhile it . is convenient to retain the fifth class here adopted in which can be ranged all those cases of diarrhoea originated by forms of force either hitherto unrecognised as causes of the disease, or the modus agendi of which re...« less