A treatise on Asiatic cholera / by Dr. Wheeler.

  • Wheeler, Dr. (John)
Date:
1849
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    comprises calomel, with or without opium, cold water, salines, and quinines; although the author never met with a single case of real cholera in which he could trace the re- covery of the patient to the influence of calomel, nor ever observed that it produced any specific effect whatever. Dr. King, who had the charge of a large district during the prevalence of cholera, re- marks, that he invariably found calomel and opium to be very unsuccessful in the treat- ment of this disease, and such you will find to be the case from other medical men in Europe, who have had to treat the real Asiatic cholera. A letter was recently published in several of the journals of the day from the Hon. It. J. Walker, dated Washington, December 6tii, in which the writer speaks in terms of almost unrestricted praise of the. successful mode of treatment for Cholera sometime ago adopted by Dr. Samuel A. Oartwright, a distin- guished physician of Natchez. Miss. 1 am glad to find that the system invariably pur- sued by me is, with the almost single excep- tion of my own important discovery, similar to that which has elicited from Mr. Walker the encomiums I have mentioned. In the