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The fierce bile presses strongly on the bowels and stomach, and the sudden outburst of vomiting and diarrhoea in cholera herald impending death: for the pulse retreats within and is roused to rapidity: there is gasping, thirst, the limbs are cold and torpid, there is an ill sweat, the nails are ghastly pale: the hands and legs convulse, the reason totters, and death ensues with direst pain.
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Du Port, F. (1988). The Signs and Causes of Cholera. In: Diehl, H. (eds) The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2_67
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