TREATMENT OF CHOLERA BY SULPHURIC ACID.

Sulphuric Acid in Cholera

can only be properly prescribed by the medical attendant. There is no single antidote. As a valuable adjunct against the epidemic the following orangeade, suggested by Dr. Waller Lewis, has been extensively used with excellent effects :? " Sulphuric Orangeade useful in Cholera times.?Concentrated compound infusion of orange peel 3 oz., simple syrup 12 oz., boiled filtered water 4 gallons, mix w...

Sulphuric Acid as a Prophylactic in Cholera Outbreaks

As I have had some experience of the drug thus used I shall,with your permission,say a few words on the subject. In Number 4, Volume X. of 1st April 1875, of your journal (I have not the Number by me) I wrote you a note on the subject of "Free Sulphurous Acid as a Prophylactic against Cholera," and in the concluding part of that note I brought to notice the use of the dilute sulphuric acid as a...

Sulphurous Acid Treatment of Cholera

hoped, were sufficiently full and precise to enable impartial readers to see that the investigation was carried on in neither a " dilettante nor perfunctory" manner ; and I may now add that all arrangements were under my personal supervision, that I -was almost continuously with the patients from first to last, and that I was energetically assisted by students who volunteered for this special d...

Sulphurous Acid Treatment of Cholera

The Treatment of Cholera by Cresol and Acid

before publication had actually occurred. On theoretical grounds one would be inclined to agree with Rogers in his opinion that acidemia plays a considerable part in the fatal issue in cholera. It is only reasonable to suppose that the acidity of the blood is considerably increased when, in the course of the disease, a large amount of alkaline fluid is poured into the bowel. Rogers endeavoured ...