APPENDIX. 



As it may interest the Faculty, I here subjoin some re- 

 marks on the Cholera, with which I have been favoured by 

 a highly talented medical friend of mine, who had ample 

 opportunities of studying the malady in all its phases, as well 

 in Stockholm, as Gothenburg : 



" In most cases the attacks were preceded by premonitory 

 symptoms. The more usual were a sense of fulness in the 

 epigastric region, and a slight diarrhoea. 



"The disease itself was generally ushered in by copious 

 rice water-like alvine dejections, sometimes accompanied by 

 vomiting ; pain at the pit of the stomach which eventually 

 became excruciating, and constant thirst succeeded, with an 

 intense desire for cold drinks ; after a short time, cramps in 

 the extremities supervened, which were very painful and of 

 long duration. 



" After two or three, or at most six hours of diarrhoea 

 and cramps, the symptoms of collapse commenced. The 

 skin became cold to the touch, and of a bluish tint ; the 

 features contracted ; the eyes deeply sunk, and bloodshot ; 

 the tongue, then generally of a bright red colour, felt cold, 



