Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

THE CHOLERA. 1.2.3

nate gratifications, we should find in following
her dictates the best security to health at all
times, but more particularly in seasons of pre-
vailing sickness. Upon the first indications of
cholera, I have" observed the stomach becomes
irritable, the bowels are attacked by griping
pains, and unnatural evacuations ; then follow
sensations of faintness, weakness, excessive
thirst, the pulse becomes languid, the surface
of the body cold and clammy, whilst the pa-
tient feels inward burning heat, with spasms in
the legs and arms.

In the practice of Native doctors, I have
noticed that they administer saffron to alleviate
violent sickness with the best possible effect.
A case came under my immediate observation,
of a young female who had suffered from a
severe illness similar in every way to the cho-
lera ; it was not, however, suspected to be
that complaint, because it was not then prevail-
ing at Lucknow : after some days the symptoms
subsided, excepting the irritation of her stomach,
which, by her father's account, obstinately re-
jected every thing offered for eleven days.