Coleridge's Choleras: Cholera Morbus, Asiatic Cholera, and Dysentery in Early Nineteenth-Century England
| Autor: | David Boyd Haycock, George Rousseau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Literature Modern History Famous Persons Poetry as Topic Modern history Medicine (miscellaneous) Ancient history Asiatic cholera History 18th Century Opium Dysentery Diagnosis Differential Cholera event.disaster medicine Humans event Cholera Morbus General Nursing business.industry History 19th Century Biography General Medicine Opioid-Related Disorders medicine.disease humanities England New disease business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 77:298-331 |
| ISSN: | 1086-3176 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/bhm.2003.0086 |
| Popis: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered from a variety of bowel disorders throughout his life; though a large part of his ailment was caused by his famous opium habit, he continuously sought an organic origin, and on at least two separate occasions, in 1804 and 1831-32, he ascribed his disorders to attacks of "cholera." With Asiatic cholera apparently first reaching England in late 1831, there was considerable argument among both physicians and the general public as to whether it was a distinctly new disease, or merely a severer variation of traditional English cholera, known as "cholera morbus." Coleridge took a particular interest in these discussions. In this paper, we attempt to establish the exact nature of his attacks of illness, and point to the complexities of describing and framing new diseases and bowel disorders in the early nineteenth century. |
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