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Mm tliese brief sentences are written, because be must wait, often, too long for 

 liis safety, wben depending entirely on medical advice. 



" But many of my readers," says Dr. Hall, '* may be in a condition, by distance 

 or otherwise, where it is not possible to obtain a physician for several hours, 

 and where such a delay might prove fatal. Under such circumstances, obtain 

 ten grains of calomel and make it into a pill vvith a few drops of gum water ; 

 dry it a little by the fire or in the sun and swallow it down. If the passages 

 do not cease within two hours, then swallovv^ two more of such pills, and con- 

 tinue to swallow two more at the end of each two hours until the bowels cease 

 to giv3 their light-colored passages, or until the physician ai'rives." 



" In m.any bad cases of cholera the stomach will retain nothing fluid or solid,. 

 cold water itself being instantly returned. A calomel pill is almost as heavy as 

 a bullet ; it sinks instantly to the bottom of the stomach, and no power of vomr 

 iting can return it." 



This treatment, excepting the bandage, we have experienced, and know its- 

 benefits. To this counsel Dr. Hall adds the following relative to 



3. Preventivcs.~"Th.ei'e are none, there never can be, except so far as it may- 

 be done by quietude of body and mind, by personal cleanliness, by regular and; 

 temperate habits of life, and the use of plain, accustomed, nourishing food." 



These things are well advised, but if cholera poison is transmitted: in the 

 modes noticed in the last number of these reports, then we have to add another 

 in regard to water drank. It should be boiled, for a boiling heat dfestroys the 

 vitality of the cholera poison. To personal cleanliness must be added cleanli- 

 ness of the town or city, and of every place around the farmer's home, especially 

 as to the excrement of the sick with cholera. 



But there is a more general view to be taken of preventives. If the vital 

 powers, producing health, are antagonistical to those producing death, then 

 whatever impairs the vigor of the former should be removed. They embrace 

 the preventives named by Dr. Hall, but much more. The purity of the atmos- 

 phere, especially of the sick room, must be pi-eserved by ventilation. But we 

 have known persons lose their lives in this wise : They have attended on the 

 sick until exhausted, and then doze in sleep over the bed. In sleep the vital 

 powers act more languidly than when we are awake, and of course less strongly 

 when the body and mind are exhausted by long and anxious watching. In cir-- 

 cumstances of this kind, rest should be sought for in a well-aired and healthy 

 room, and with the protection of warm clothing. But we content ourselves with 

 this general reference, because these are things about which the physician may 

 be consulted. Our object is to lay before the f^xrmer such advice as his remote- 

 ness from the physician renders necessary. We have but to add, that as soon 

 as the cholera is near, which, for him, we entreat it may never be, that he pro- 

 cure the flannels and medicine recommended and follow the counsel here given, 



II. CATTLE PLAGUE. 



1. Syynptoms. — In previous articles we have published the symptoms of this 

 disease. We now recur to this* part of our subject for the purpose of impressing 

 on the minds of the public two things : first, that when the first symptom of its ' 

 presence is perceived, it already has a fatal power over the animal ; second, that, 

 therefore, preventive measures are the only reliable ones. 



