A letter addressed to the Central Board of Health : written with the view of establishing rational principles for the treatment of cholera / [John George French].

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
[1832]
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Credit: A letter addressed to the Central Board of Health : written with the view of establishing rational principles for the treatment of cholera / [John George French]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A LETTER TO THE CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. GENTLEMEN, The office of Surgeon to a Cholera Hospital has afforded mé opportunities of observing the disease; and from close atten- tion to the phenomena attending it, I have been led to the following conclusions. That the alimentary canal becomes sub- jected to a process which altogether super- sedes digestion, and, by this process a large quantity of fluid is produced as an excre- tion, which rapidly diminishes the bulk of the blood: with the mechanism of this production, we are as yet unacquainted. Bhat this constitutes the disease.