ASIATIC CHOLERA _A TREATISE_ ON ITS _ORIGIN, PATHOLOGY, TREATMENT, AND CURE_. BY E. WHITNEY, M. D., AND A. B. WHITNEY, A. M., M. D., LATE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON To Diseases of Women in the North-Western Dispensary, Visiting Physician, Etc. NEW YORK: M. W. DODD, PUBLISHER, NO. 506 BROADWAY. 1866. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. B. WHITNEY, A. M., M. D., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. E. O. JENKINS, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER, 20 NORTH WILLIAM ST., N. Y. DEDICATION. TO PROFESSORS POST, VAN BUREN, METCALF, AND BEDFORD. For those lucid Clinic illustrations and faithful instructions during a three-years' course in the New York Medical University, particularly the critical Pathological knowledge there inculcated, and consequent professional success, the youthful author is indebted. Knowing they will agree with him, that his appreciation of their valued services, and his gratitude for the same, can be best acknowledged in his attempt to benefit suffering humanity, he would here publicly acknowledge the pleasure and benefit received from their instructions during his College course, and beg their acceptance of his sincerest gratitude and affection. TO THESE ABLE INSTRUCTORS THIS VOLUME IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED BY THE JUNIOR AUTHOR. A. B. WHITNEY, M. D. PREFACE. The following pages are the result of investigations and the collection of facts and arguments from a great variety of sources, originally made and presented in aid of the discussions on the subject during the past six or eight months. The most eminent and reliable authorities for nearly half a century, that is, from 1832 to 1865, including the late reports from India, have been carefully examined, and such late discoveries, facts, and arguments collected, as seemed to throw light upon the subject, or in any degree to indicate or direct to a general principle of practice. The various experiments instituted for the cure of the disease have been carefully investigated, and the principle evolved explained whenever any advantage was derived from the same. In all these we have diligently searched for the cause of the failure of "remedial agents," so uniformly admitted, and have endeavored to present the results clearly and fully in the body of the work. Our statistics are collected from reliable sources, are very brief, and introduced in aid of the main object,--the establishment of a general principle of practice. The different modes of practice are from the most distinguished authors of the different Schools of Medicine, and non-professional gentlemen; condensed and exhibited mainly in their own language, to show their conformity or non-conformity to the Pathology of the disease.