Two medical theses by Uruguayans on cholera and the Paraguayan War
Its transmission to the territory of Uruguay
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https://doi.org/10.35954/SM2017.36.2.8Keywords:
History of Medicine; Cholera.Abstract
Cholera is an acute infectious-intestinal disease, caused by several strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae bacteria. It causes secretory diarrhea characterized by rice-water-like stools, with a marked fishy odor with a pronounced fishy odor, high sodium loss, bicarbonate loss of sodium, bicarbonate and potassium, leading in its severe form to ion imbalance. severe form to ionic imbalance, dehydration, acid-base instability and fatal hypovolemia.
The disease has been called by various names throughout history such as "blue disease", "black disease", "blue "black disease", "severe acute fever", "choleric passion", "choleric diarrhea", "cholera diarrhea", "cholera morbus", "cholera gravis" and, simply cholera.
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