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dency to a failure of the circulation, and all its fatal symptoms are 
based upon this failure ;” and that “the one main indication to be 
fulfilled, is, to keep up the circulation, and prevent the blood from 
stagnating in the veins.” This indication he endeavors to fulfil by 
various methods in the different stages. When coilapse is present, 
he adopts the plan recommended by Mr. Baird, of overcoming the 
spasm of the heart, by the use of tobacco as an enema. Before the 
stage of collapse, he relies principally on mustard, and saline emet- 
ics, and blood-letting. Many other auxiliary medicines are advised, 
with no great peculiarity as to kind or mode of administration, when 
- compared with other writers upon this subject. 
4. A rational view of the Spasmodic Cholera, chiefly with —_— 
to the best means of preventing it. By A Puysicran. Boston 
This pamphlet is made up principally of extracts from the various 
. publications which were made soon after the breaking out of the 
cholera in this country. The object of the author was to select such 
plain practical rules, as might be easily understood, and made availa- 
ble by the public at large, for the prevention of cholera, and for the 
treatment of it, when professional advice could not be obtained. The 
work, when it was published, was well timed and useful, as the selec- 
tion was judiciously made, and the rules recommended, such as are 
now generally understood to be the most efficient in guarding against 
that mysterious agent y which predisposes the human system to this 
disease. 
5. Account of the cases of Cholera, observed among the Physicians 
and persons employed in the Hospitals in the provinces of Prussia. 
By Dr. W. Waener. (Extracted from the Archives du Cholera, 
2d No. Berlin: 1832.) 
(Translated for this Journal, by J. H.Griscom,M.D.) __. 
According to the reports of the central police, published up to this 
day, (3d of April, 1832,) the number of cases of cholera observed 
among the physicians, surgeons, overseers, carriers of the sick, grave 
diggers, &c. has been four hundred and seventy six, of whom two 
hundred and seventeen recovered, and two hundred and fifty nine 
died ; in this total are comprised the cases observed at Berlin, and 
in the provinces of Bromberg, Posen, Gumbinnen, Marienwerder, 
