Unpublished letters, regarding a cure for cholera morbus from B E De Berca
Reference number: AP/16/7
Date: November 1831
Description
Two unpublished letters from B E De Berca. In the first, De Berca writes of the effectiveness of warm water and salt as a cure for cholera morbus [gastroenteritis], describing his personal experience of ingesting a saline solution of one part salt to seven parts warm water to alleviate symptoms of cholera morbus.
Subject: Medicine
- Reference number
- AP/16/7
- Earliest possible date
- November 1831
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished letters, regarding a cure for cholera morbus from B E De Berca, November 1831, AP/16/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_16_7/unpublished-letters-regarding-a-cure-for-cholera-morbus-from-b-e-de-berca, accessed on 14 September 2026
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Archived papers: volume 16, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1831-1836
1831-1836 Reference number: AP/16
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Augustus Frederick
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Dates: 1768 - 1989
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