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this could be caused by dehydration. He felt that death occurred because the poison prevented blood from circulating through the right side of the heart, thus cutting off blood from the lungs and causing a death similar to that caused by asphyxiation. He considered that bleeding could help in the cure.
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Johnson thought that cholera was caused by a poison in the blood producing right-sided heart congestion. He saw the vomiting and diarrhea of cholera as the body's attempt to expel the poison. He agreed that the blood of cholera victims differed in appearance from normal blood, but did not accept that
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had proposed saline injections as a way of restoring salts lost through the bowels, which today is considered a rational therapy. However, when
Johnson reviewed results of this approach applied to 156 patients in 1832 he noted that only 25 had recovered. By 1848 the saline injection treatment was
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of August 1876 published his detailed account of the symptoms, treatment and progress of the illness. From 1876 to 1886, Johnson was
Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kings. In 1883, he was appointed consulting physician to the
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as house physician and then house surgeon. In 1850 he was made an honorary fellow of King's
College. He became an assistant physician at the hospital in 1847 and physician in 1856. From 1857 to 1863, he was Professor of
138:, timber merchant. He attended the local grammar school. In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle, a general practitioner at Cranbrook in Kent. In October 1839 he entered the medical school of
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Johnson became recognized as an authority on cholera and on kidney diseases, and published several works on these subjects. He was one of the first physicians to use the
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treatment of cholera. Instead he advocated the "evacuation treatment", to get rid of as many cholera bacteria as possible by purging the bowels. In 1832
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Cholera, Chloroform, and the
Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow
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On
Cholera and Choleraic Diarrhoea: Their Nature, Cause and Treatment
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The
Incurables Movement: An Illustrated History of the British Home
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Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in
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A memorial to George
Johnson in St James's Church, Piccadilly.
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Clark, Sir George Norman; Briggs, Asa (15 September 2005).
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In 1862, Johnson was elected a member of the senate of the
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A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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177:In 1876, Johnson attempted to treat
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306:On the diseases of the kidney
234:St James's Church, Piccadilly
849:Fellows of the Royal Society
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409:Lectures on Bright's disease
406:Johnson, Sir George (1874).
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352:Johnson, Sir George (1868).
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279:Johnson was opposed to the
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221:. They had five children.
431:. Smith, Elder, & Co.
214:He was knighted in 1892.
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615:Brown, G.H. (2009).
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