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Read Ebook: The Cholera Gazette Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday August 1st 1832. by Various
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It is shown by authentic documents in our possession, that the result of M. Magendie's treatment was not less unfortunate than that of his colleagues; he lost more than one-half of his patients.
A careful examination of the results of the various modes of treatment adopted in India, Russia, Poland, Germany, Great Britain and France, has satisfied us that the internal administration of powerful stimulants in large doses, in the collapsed stage of cholera, has been eminently injurious, and such appears to have been ultimately the conviction of nearly all the practitioners who resorted to them. Panic struck, with the utter state of prostration of patients in the collapse of cholera, physicians appear every where to have at first been led to administer the most powerful stimulants in large and repeated doses, to rouse the action of the heart. Recovered from their first surprise, and admonished by their ill success, and by the violent and uncontrollable reaction sometimes induced, these remedies were subsequently abandoned, or only applied externally, and with incomparably better results.
Bowel complaints continue to be the prevailing diseases, and within a few days several cases of cholera have assumed malignant characters.
July 27th the Board of Health reported 2 cases of malignant cholera. 28th 6 29th 6 30th 15 31st 19
The whole number of cases, as near as can be ascertained, is 52, of which, 30 have occurred in the districts, 6 in the Alms-house, 1 in the Arch street prison, and the remaining 15, in the outskirts and dirtiest parts of the city.
Report of the Board of Health for the twenty-four hours, ending August 1st, noon:--
PRIVATE PRACTICE.
CASES. RESIDENCE. DEATHS.
Hospitals. Physicians. New cases. Died. Cured. Remaining.
Alms-house, H. L. Hodge, 1 1 1 0 Jones' Alley, Parrish, 1 0 0 2 Locust st. Chapman, 2 1 0 1 Moyamensing, Thomson, 1 1 0 1 -- -- -- -- 5 3 1 4
A white woman was brought from the Alms-house in a dying state, and expired soon after admission.
NEW CASES. DEATHS.
Private practice, 16 5 Hospitals, 5 3 Alms-house, 1 1 -- -- 22 9
The following table exhibits the whole mortality, and also that from bowel complaints, for the 4th week in July for five successive years.
An impression appears somehow or other to have got abroad that negroes are not liable to be attacked with cholera; such a notion, however, has no foundation. In New York, it has been observed that they have enjoyed no greater immunity than the whites, and the natives of India, whose constitution much resembles that of the negro, were more liable to cholera than Europeans. There is ample grounds for fearing that the disease will be productive of terrible mortality among the slaves of the southern states, and proper measures of hygiene should be promptly adopted; and on the very first symptoms of derangement of the digestive organs, remedial measures immediately resorted to.
It affords us pleasure to notice that the cholera is abating in our sister city. During the last few days, the number of cases have considerably diminished, and though accidental causes may occasionally interrupt their constant decrease, it is manifest that the epidemic has reached its height and is on the decline.
The report for the twenty-four hours, ending Tuesday, July 31st, at 12 o'clock, announces--
The number of interments during the week, ending Saturday, July 28th, were 879; of which, there were from cholera morbus, 10; malignant cholera, 689; cramp in the stomach, 1; diarrhoea, 3; dysentery, 4; cholera infantum, 18; inflammation of the bowels, 4; inflammation of the stomach, 2.
The following is a statement of the cases and deaths from the commencement of the epidemic to the 14th of July inclusive:--
Daily cases. Daily burials. Total cases. Total deaths. June 10th to 15 1328 175 16 381 86 1709 261 17 474 102 2183 363 18 261 128 2444 491 19 337 149 2781 640 20 165 94 2946 734 21 151 76 3097 810 22 109 52 3206 862 23 83 31 3289 893 24 51 21 3340 914 25 44 33 3384 947 26 27 23 3411 970 27 21 26 3432 996 28 22 20 3454 1016 29 37 21 3491 1037 30 32 22 3523 1059 July 1 23 17 3546 1076 2 13 20 3559 1096 3 11 14 3670 1110 4 23 17 3593 1127 5 22 13 3615 1140 6 19 4 3634 1144 7 13 9 3647 1153 8 14 11 3661 1164 9 10 9 3671 1175 10 7 6 3678 1184 11 14 10 3692 1190 12 15 10 3707 1200 13 9 10 3716 1210 14 8 10 3724 1220
NOTICE.
The August No. of this Journal will be delayed a few days in consequence of the illness of the Editor. The No. will contain copious details of the cholera of Paris by two American physicians who were in that city during the prevalence of the epidemic, a review of the principal works on cholera, and the Periscope will be enriched with various documents relative to that disease.
PHILADELPHIA--CAREY & LEA--CHESNUT STREET.
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