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Intravenous infusions in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the 1970s

Thomas Latta and the invention of IV fluid therapy

Thomas Latta was a physician in Leith when the second worldwide pandemic of cholera hit Scotland.  The disease spread widely.  It was still 20 years before John Snow proved beyond reasonable doubt that contaminated water was the cause, but therapies were also controversial.  Blood letting was a staple treatment. Latta had read the 1832 reports […]

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