A treatise on Asiatic cholera / by Dr. Wheeler.

  • Wheeler, Dr. (John)
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on Asiatic cholera / by Dr. Wheeler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    case of him who possesses a remedial and curative agent, whose value and efficiency- have been demonstrated by actual and re- peated trials. To those who are unacquainted with the services rendered by the author of this publication, to hundreds of severely afflicted individuals, during the fearful and fatal prevalence of the Asiatic Cholera, or Cholera Asphyxia, in the years 1S32-4, it may appear surprising that he should, in the ensuing pages, so strongly and urgently re- commend, as an absolutely certain remedy, as well as preventive, for that, horrible dis- ease, a preparation now almost universally known as the Balsam of Moscatello. It is not from the mere circumstance of his being ihe discoverer and sole proprietor of that ex- traordinarily successful invention—nor from any considerations of a selfish or pecuniary nature—that he now, at a period of appre- hended public calamity, solicits the attention of the community to the great advantages to be derived from the use of a specific which has saved thousands from the attacks of a dangerous pestilence, and averted death in many instances where the dread scourge was