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baseness to suspect them * But it is well , it best strengthens ihem fbr their arduous task , to shew that it is as efficient Reformers that the people support them ; that we do not , in our confidence , relinquish the right of discussion and of judgment ; and that the grateful and glorious triumph which awaits their success will be awarded , not by a blind admiration , but with a just perception and estimate of the skill and firmness which they shall have evinced , the difficulties they shall have surmounted , the perils they
shall have avoided , and the blessings they shall have bestowed . Let them but ensure success , and they will be men whom King and People will delight to honour . So important a task , and the prospect of so noble a recoropence , are almost without a parallel in the history of nations and the awards of Providence .
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The Cholera . 779
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" The Cholera , " says Sydenham , the most celebrated physician of the 17 th century , and one of the best physicians which England ever produced , " comes as certainly at the latter end of summer and at the approach of autumn , as swallows at the beginning of spring , and as cuckoos at the heat of the following season . " Of what the disease then was , this acute and original observer has afforded us the means of forming an adequate conception . These are , he says , violent vomitings $ great difficulty and
trouble by stool ; violent pain and inflammation of the intestines ; burning heat at the pit of the stomach 5 urgent thirst ; a quick and unequal pulse ; convulsions of the arms and legs ; fainting ; sweatings ; coldness of the extreme parts of the body ; and " such-like symptoms , which frighten the by-standers and kill the patient in twenty-four hours . " And speaking of the same disease , as it appeared at a particular season , namely , in the year 1675 , he says , " at the end of the summer the Cholera Morbus raged epidemically , and being heightened by the usual heat of the season , the convulsions that accompanied were more violent , and continued longer than ever I observed before ; for they did not only seize the belly as they were wont , but now all the muscles , of the body ; and the arms and legs were especially seized with dreadful convulsions , so that the sick would sometimes leap out of the bed , endeavouring , by stretching his body every way , to
suppress the violence of them . " : Is it true that Cholera now appears in England at the latter end of summer and at the approach of autumn , as certainly as swallows at the begin- * fling of spring , and as cuckoos at the heat of the following season ? And when it does come , does it attack with symptoms which . " frighten the bystanders and kill the patient in twenty-four hours" > i
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ON CHOLERA . BY A PHYSICIAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 779, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/55/
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