Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1610

MOSES L KNAPP (1799-1879) Essay on cholera infantum. H. W. Derby 1855 96 pp. 20.7 cm.

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Knapp had concluded that all disease processes could be explained by a scorbutic diathesis. He insisted that fresh fruits and vegetables instead of starchy foods should be used in treating patients with symptoms of scurvy. His ideas were accepted by many physicians and found to be of therapeutic value. Knapp had already postulated that cholera was of scorbutic origin and continues that thesis in the present work. He also held "that Cholera Infantum differs in nothing that is essential in its nature, or pathognomonic in its character, from the Asiatic or Epidemic Cholera of adults; or in other words, that the hitherto supposed two forms of disease are one and the same. . . ." (p. 3).