SECT. VII. PHYSIOLOGY. AT 
xciu. The following case shows all the three 
stages of this disease, with a feeble re-action 
between the two last. 
xciv. Sergeant Stromberg, aged 30, had a 
slight diarrhoea during the night. I saw him at 
six o’clock in the morning, and thinking his com- 
plaint of a trifling nature, I ordered him a small 
dose of rhubarb; he had, in the course of the 
day, two or three liquid stools, but at eight in 
the evening the disease assumed the character of 
Indian cholera. He did not, however, send for 
assistance till ten o’clock, by which time, he had 
vomited an enormous quantity of whey-coloured 
fluid; the animal heat was very low, and the 
pulse weak; the muscles of the abdomen were 
corrugated into large knots by incessant spasm; 
the muscles of the legs and arms were also in a 
spasmodic state; and the pain which he suffered 
was excruciating. He was ordered fifty drops of 
laudanum, in some brandy and water; he had 
also a scruple of calomel, but the whole was 
rejected in a few minutes. The calomel was 
repeated, and again rejected in a quarter of an 
hour. A blister was then applied to the epigas- 
tric region, and bottles, filled with hot water, to 
the feet. His thirst was excessive, and he urgently 
demanded acids and cold water, to drink. Al- 
though the animal temperature seemed reduced 
nearly to the level of surrounding objects, he 
