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unnatural contents of the bowels, and with them, possibly, the poison which produced

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the disease, relieves the breathing, quickens the circulation, and rouses the energies of the whole system. Such beingthe case, I am anxious that the practice should be generally known ; and I feel assured that, if once fairly tried, it cannot fail strongly to recommend itself.’ I can scarcelv, however, flatter mvself that, whatever say in its favour, it wilt receive that notice which it undoubtedly deserves. The public mind has been so often disappointed by the failure of plans of treatment which have been held out as most efficacioug, and of which the

No. 1.—Council

Office, Whitehall,

Sept. 3,

1832.

Sir,-The Central Board of Health being

anxious to obtain, from authentic practical sources, short outlines of the different plans of treatment in cholera, which may have been considered most successful, I am directed to request that you will have the kindness to submit the enclosed (No. 2.) to the medical members of your board, and to any other medical gentlemen in the neighbourhood who may have had exten. most pleasing hopes were entertained, that sive practice in the disease. You will also it’is now almost disposed to succumb quietly request the medical gentlemen in charge of to the overpowering evil. Even the treat- cholera hospitals to fill up, and forward ment by saline injections into the veins, so through you, a return of the following form, establishments within the confidently recommended by its first proposer, whose "Eureka" re-echoed through- district under the superintendence of your I am, Sir, your most obedient out the country, was bailed almost univer- board. sallv as the harbinger of a splendid triumph servant, WM. MACLEAN to science, has turned out on trial to be in(Signed) jurious rather than beneficial. In such a To the Secretary of the Board of Health state of tbings it behoves, I conceive, the at ---. Central Board of Health, in particular, to use every exertion that may tend to keep No. 2.—Council Office, Sept. 3, 1832. awake a spirit of investigation, and to proMedical gentlemen who have had expecure a fair and satisfactory trial for every rience in the treatment of cholera, and are rational plan of treatment, no matter by of opinion that they have been successful whom it may happen to be proposed. I in their practice, are requested to forward have the honour to - be, Sir, your most obe- to the " Secretary of the Central Board of dient servant, JOHN M’DIVITT. Health," under cover to "The Clerk of the Council in waiting, Whitehall," a short Kegworth, Leicestershire, account of their respective methods of treatAug. 31st, 1832. ment of the epidemic :1st. When in the furm of bilious diarrhma. 2nd. In that of rice-water evacuations. 3rd. In the stage of collapse.

I may

for each of these

RETURN

of Patients admitted into

the Cholera

Hospital

at

From

to

-

----

1832.

TOTAL NUMBERS.

Admitted.

Recovered.

Died.

(Signed)

Remarks.

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