Definition: Cholera Morbus
An acute inflammation of stomach and upper bowel. This is most common in young people in late summer, after indiscretion in eating.
Symptoms: Sometimes the patient feels tired, then nausea, etc. The attack though is usually sudden, with nausea, vomiting, and cramp-like pains in the abdomen. The contents of the stomach are vomited. The bowel discharge at first is diarrhea and later like rice water. Repeated vomiting and purging, with severe cramps. It looks like true cholera.
[Ed: In modern terms this would usually be called ‘gastroenteritis’.]
Source: Mother’s Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remidies from Mothers of the United States and Canada, T. J. Ritter
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