Observations on the nature of malignant cholera, with a view to establish correct principles of its preventions and treatment : drawn up at the request of the Westminster Medical Society / by A. P. W. Philip.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1832
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    in all cases except the most extreme, would be benefici and that the sooner it is employed it will be the more so. When the determination is to the hepatic system, me curials are a necessary addition to our other means. But think we have reason to believe that it is only under .su cireurastanceis, with the exception of the occasional empio ment of calomel as an active purgative when such is require that they will prove beneficial in malignant cholera, appears to be the great tendency to affections of the liver sultry climates, which renders mercurials so much more bj nefieial there than they have been found in Europe ; and have reason to believe that when there is no such determine tion, the relief of which will certainly compensate for aq harm they are otherwise calculated to do ; their effects, \vh| employed to any considerable extent, on the nervous systeij will always render them prejudicial in this disease. Those who have made the nature of disease their stud will not be surprized to find it so modified by circumstanc< and nothing.is more powerful than climate, that what undj some, constitutes our chief reliance, under others, only adj to the evil. In the more protracted cases of cholera, a companied by local determination, the fate of the patie must chiefly depend on the relief afforded to the part, whi^ is always a vital one, that chiefly suffers. It will rj therefore appear surprizing that when the influence climate determines that part to be the liver and its appej dages, means which relieve them, even although otherwij prejudicial, should be essential to recovery. With respect to the last division of the subject, the ens of fever succeeding malignant cholera, occasioned by t great irritation the system has undergone, they must treated on the same principles as other fevers of the sat description; the physician bearing in mind that the sour from which they spring has strained every power of constitution. THE END. W. GUTIiniE, PBINTER, 15, SHOE LANE.