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 with bed-clothes, and be strictly enjoined on no account to raise his head; on this account, a bed-pan is indispensable, more lives being lost by parties getting up to go to stool than any other cause, which is in every case to be most strictly prohibited. To relievorelieve [sic] the intolerablointolerable [sic] thirst that always exists, toast and water, and, what has often proved highly beneficial, an infusion of coffee without sugar or milk, of which the patient my drink as much as he chooses. —— N.B. Oak bark boiled in water, in the proportion of 2 ounces of the bark to an English pint of water, and injecting the full of a 3-ounce syringe after every stool, has been found in many cases to check the disease, and ought to be tried, as it does not interfere with the other modes of treatment.

.——Dr. Sutherland, the government authority on this subject, was so convinced of the importance of an early attention to the premonitory symptoms of this disease, that his whole energies were exerted to establish an efficient staff of medical assistants, who, instead of waiting till they were sent for, had instructions to visit every family in the several districts alloted to each, to inquire into the state of the bowels, and administering an opium pill, or a few drops of laudanum, to check any looseness. The consequence of this prudential arrangement has been, that hundreds, if not thousands of cases of the incipient disease, have been checked in the bud, which, had it been allowed to go on, would have ended in all the dreadful symptoms of genuine cholera. Would persons only be persuaded to attend to their bowels the instant they are affected with purging, so as to get this checked, the result would be, that there would not be a single death from cholera. Let this plain fact boso [sic] engraven upon the minds of every one, so as to produce a practical influence on their conduct; and let attention be paid to diet and regimen——shunning spirits or spirituous liquors as they would do poison——and also attend to keep their persons and houses clean and sweet, and use their influence to get nuisances, such as dung heaps or any other accumulation of impurity, removed; and let all unite their energies for the general good, to supply wholesomowholesome [sic] food and warm