Rousseau George S, Haycock David Boyd
Bull Hist Med. 2003 Summer;77(2):298-331. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2003.0086.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered from a variety of bowel disorders throughout his life; though a large part of his ailment was caused by his famous opium habit, he continuously sought an organic origin, and on at least two separate occasions, in 1804 and 1831-32, he ascribed his disorders to attacks of "cholera." With Asiatic cholera apparently first reaching England in late 1831, there was considerable argument among both physicians and the general public as to whether it was a distinctly new disease, or merely a severer variation of traditional English cholera, known as "cholera morbus." Coleridge took a particular interest in these discussions. In this paper, we attempt to establish the exact nature of his attacks of illness, and point to the complexities of describing and framing new diseases and bowel disorders in the early nineteenth century.
塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治一生饱受各种肠道疾病的折磨；尽管他的病痛很大程度上是由他著名的鸦片成瘾所致，但他一直在寻找器质性病因，并且至少在1804年以及1831年至1832年这两个不同的时期，他将自己的疾病归因于“霍乱”发作。随着亚洲霍乱显然在1831年末首次传入英国，医生和普通民众之间就它是一种全新的疾病，还是仅仅是传统英国霍乱（即“假霍乱”）的一种更严重变体展开了激烈争论。柯勒律治对这些讨论尤为关注。在本文中，我们试图确定他发病的确切性质，并指出19世纪早期描述和界定新疾病及肠道疾病的复杂性。
