Cases of Dysentery Simulating Cholera
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" a case of cholera." On going to the hospital, he learned that the patient had?about an hour before?been seized, in his niglit quarters, witli vomiting and purging and other choleralike symptoms, and had been at once removed to hospital. The medical officer found the patient lying in a collapsed condition, his lips blue; his eyes somewhat sunken ; his skin icy cold; his tongue was cool, but not cold ; his voice was husky ; he complained of cramping pains all over his body and limbs, but especially severe in his belly ; he had vomited a quantity of fluid resembling " conji-water," and he had just passed iv copious fluid stool, whose character and consistence were like those of " rice-water stools" so called, but which had uniformly diffused through it a pale-pink hue. The case thus strongly resembled one of cholera, but? although treatment suited to cholera was at once instituted ?
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