A treatise on Asiatic cholera / by Dr. Wheeler.

  • Wheeler, Dr. (John)
Date:
1849
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    pernicious poweis upon the blood. There is another remedy which was strongly advo- cated here in 1S34, namely, the use of ice. Let me ask the advocates of it, how many, of their patients recovered under its exhibi- tion ? and I will boldly assert, who ever has recourse to such a remedy must sink under its influence. As regards the mode of treatment that has been adopted here, I would, with all due deference to the skill of my professional bre- thren, who have extolled the use of calomel and opium in such large doses, simply ask, have they not discovered their practice to be founded upon erroneous principles, and the use of either of those articles, administered in the way they have prescribed to be used, to be very injurious to the patient? Opium, I will admit, relieves the sufferer of the excru- ciating pain, while the effect of it is produced and lasts; but, at the same time, it causes the disease to remain in the system, and by that means ma!:es such an inroad on the system that no remedies will reach it, as the intestines, in general, are overloaded with the worst of acrid secretions. Is opium, then, a proper medicine to be administered?