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September 9, 1891
The Durham Daily Globe
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina
What is this article about?
Article discusses evolving cholera treatment: formerly, physicians withheld water from patients fearing it worsened the disease; now, with germ theory, hot water drinking and injections are recommended to flush germs from intestines. (Boston Herald)
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Water for Cholera,
Not long ago many physicians who had had experience in cholera maintained that water should be withheld as much as possible from the patients, and that those who drank freely were almost sure to succumb to the terrible malady. At the present time, however, it being universally acknowledged that cholera is a disease due to germs, a treatment that promises to be popular is to insist that the patients drink all the hot water possible, for the purpose of washing these germs out of the intestinal canal. Moreover, to take, at frequent intervals at first, large injections of hot water to favor this expulsion.—Boston Herald.
Not long ago many physicians who had had experience in cholera maintained that water should be withheld as much as possible from the patients, and that those who drank freely were almost sure to succumb to the terrible malady. At the present time, however, it being universally acknowledged that cholera is a disease due to germs, a treatment that promises to be popular is to insist that the patients drink all the hot water possible, for the purpose of washing these germs out of the intestinal canal. Moreover, to take, at frequent intervals at first, large injections of hot water to favor this expulsion.—Boston Herald.
What sub-type of article is it?
Medical Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Recovery
What keywords are associated?
Cholera Treatment
Hot Water
Germ Expulsion
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Event Date
Not Long Ago
Story Details
Shift in cholera treatment from withholding water to encourage patients to drink and inject hot water to wash out germs from the intestinal canal.