Talking of cholera, it ought, perhaps, to be more generally
known than it is that a great many patients have been cured after passing into the apparently hopeless condition which is spoken of as " collapse." Dr. T. M. Lownds, a retired Indian Surgeon-Major of the Bombay Army, who had had many oppor- tunities of treating cholera of the worst type in India, has shown, in a little paper published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal for November, 1881, that cholera patients in collapse, if fed with Liebig's raw soup, which passes into the blood without digestion and therefore without making any demands on the digestive system, may be cured even when collapse has apparently set in for an hour or two before the raw soup is given. Treated -thus, the collapse disappears, though the disease often runs on for two or three days more, the collapse being really due to inanition.
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