The practice in bilious cholera, febrile diarrhœa, and convulsive cholic, was simple, and similar in all, consisting of a bolus containing three grains of calomel, and one of crude opium, repeated every second, third, or fourth hour, according to the force of symptoms. Cathartics were often required in the colicy affections, as was occasionally abstraction of blood by venesection, or leeches. The remedies were extremely uniform, and have been uniformly successful.
It may be observed in conclusion that, up to this date, none of the nurses, medical attendants, or other persons associated with the sick of cholera have been affected by the disease, although one or more of the medical officers of the Establishment have been almost constantly in the ward, and one or other of the juniors has slept in an apartment close to it; and further that no case of cholera has arisen within the walls of the Hospital, while it has been frequently brought in, and had continual existence within them, upwards of ten weeks, amid a population of patients, servants, including the women who washed the foul linen, and officers with their families, of nearly 600 souls.
LEGG, PRINTER, GOSPORT.
FOOTNOTES.
[9] See postscript.
[17] An anonymous writer in the Times of the 11th August, states that Birmingham had like immunity in 1832, and up to that date of the present year.
[19] Paper by Dr. Mc William in the Medical Gazette of 15th June of this year.