Sulphurous Acid Treatment of Cholera

Sulphurous Acid in Cholera

P. N. I. at Peshavvur during the cholera epidemic of 1876, had made extraordinary recoveries under the use of this medicine, i. e, the proportion of recoveries was unusually large. The cases of cholera in the 20th P. N. I. above mentioned were under my treatment, and it occurred to rue that the solution of sulphurous acid would be, when given internally, much more efficacious than by any other ...

Sulphurous Acid Treatment of Cholera

Sulphurous Acid in Cholera

To the Editor of the " Indian Hfedical Gazette Sir, A few days since I saw in your paper of tho 1st of last October a letter from Surg.-Major G It. Cos tello, headed "Sulphurous Acid in Cholera." In this letter Surg-Major Costello refers to a letter from him in your Gazette of! November 187G, recommending tho internal use of: Sulphurous acid in solution in cases of: cholera, an 1 in his present...

On Sulphurous Acid as a Remedy for Cholera

In the first place, the qualities of sulphurous acid are worthy of note. "It is a powerful deoxidising agent, disinfecting and antiseptic, and destructive to vegetable life. It destroys the germs of fungi in wounds, of parasitic lichen on the skin." {Vide Squire's Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia, Art. Sulphurous acid.) Should cholera be due ^as some have supposed) to the presence of a fi...

Case of Cholera Treated by Sulphurous Acid: Recovery

Sulphur Fumigations in Cholera

on the 20th. This ward was immediately fumigated with sulphurous acid ; no other cases of cholera have occurred in the jail, there was no communication of any sort or kind between these two men. ot7i.?Cholera has been very prevalent in the bazaar and neighbourhood. Gth.? Since the occurrence of the 2nd case in the jail I have had all the wards fumigated with sulphurous acid daily, and will cont...