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CHOLERA.
1849, I published an article upon the treatment of this
disease. Then, as now, I called the attention of the
profession to the pathology of the disease, and showed
that it had a strong analogy to congestive fever, from
the fact that in both diseases the blood recedes from
the surface, and congests itself in and upon the inter-
nal organs. Now, any remedy that would have
a tendency to produce re-action in one, would most
likely be followed by the same results in the other;
consequently I contend that the cold dash, which is so
universally acknowledged in congestive lever as the most
efficient remedy to produce reaction, will, if given in
time, be followed with like results in cholera. The
great misfortune has been, that this remedy has been
looked upon as a dernier resort, and the time for its
administration is postponed to that period when proba-
bly nothing could be used that would effect any good.
I believe I was the first to suggest this remedy, and I
am from experience satisfied that it is the great sheet
anchor in producing reaction.
I am not so bigoted or so wedded to any system of
medicine as to be its champion to the exclusion of others.
I consider I have a perfect right to investigate all of the
different systems, and avail myself of any information
which I may deem important and true; and I will pre-
mise by saying, that the treatment I adopt now for
cholera, has been attended with more success than when
I treated it under different systems.
Your treatment will have to be regulated by the con-
dition of your patient at the time you are called in, and
one leading indication will be, in either the confirmed
or collapsed stage, to establish reaction, and produce a
determination to the surface, inducing perspiration.322
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/322/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.