The History of the Contagious Cholera Author:James Kennedy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Subjects: Medical / Infectious Diseases Medical / Forensic Medicine Medical / History Medical / Public Health 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 Book... more »s edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: III nf. ,/..: ,-. i!, ,'n or Ģiu . . . . r. i,;, u. i.. il c SECTION III. -': '. H ... ''!'.,' ' ' ''; . O. dit ' ' ' '' ..... '-.:'Hi', ' i: -:- III ,''|' '' : . '.. ! i : 'I" Medical Treatment of the Contagious Cholera, founded on. Experience and Reason. -- Progress of the D'sease, exterior k H'ndustan. -- Laws of the Disease. -- Evidence of the of,. hpseLaws, -- Quarantine. If the reader have attentively perused the abstracts of tke Indian Reports, he cannot fail to have observed a few facts of paramount interest, which, by the concurrent testimony of a variety of witnesses, far apart, and ignorant, at the time, of each other's views, seem to have attained the rank of general facts. These general facts, in characterising the contagious cholera, shew that it is exceedingly fatal and rapid in its course -- that it may exist in various degrees of severity in different individuals, and in various degrees of severity in different localities, and at different times in the same locality -- and that in the treatment pursued, blood-letting, calomel and laudanum, brandy, arrack, and other spirits, and the application of moist or dry heat to the surface of the body, were the grand remedial agents. A mere knowledge, however, of the principal symptoms of a disease, and a catalogue of the medicines which, in a multitude of instances, have effected its cure, will not be sufficient to qualify a physician to practise with either well-earned credit to himself, or advantage to his patient. The per...« less