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the almost unequalled severity of this, they would probably have 

 been, at the least, equally successful. It is the opinion of Doct. 

 Payne, that not more than one patient in six of asphyxiated cholera 

 recovers, under any treatment. 



Many other topics of interest are considered in this treatise. There 

 will be found, especially in the sixth letter, a full, accurate and intel- 

 ligible account of the various symptoms, both ordinary and irregular, 

 during life, and of the appearance of all the important parts of the 

 body after death. 



One fact, hitherto unnoticed, is stated on the authority of Doct. 

 Gale. This is, the presence of a small quantity, varying from one 

 half to two per cent, of an oily matter, floating on the blood, taken 

 from some of the most important organs, of a portion of cholera pa- 

 tients after death. No opinion is given concerning the origin of this 

 fluid, nor any conjecture of its effects upon the system. 

 • These letters will be read with pleasure by those who desire an 

 accurate account of the cholera as it appears in this country. 



3. Some account of the Asiatic Cholera, Cholera Asphyxia, &fC., hy 

 Saml. a. Cabtwright, M. D. of Natchez. 



This is a pamphlet, of more than thirty pages, prepared and pub- 

 lished by the author, in compliance with repeated solicitations of his 

 friends, physicians and others, for such rules of diagnosis and treatment 

 as would guide them on the first breaking out of the disease, which it 

 was apprehended would ravage the southern section of this country. 

 His object has been to give such a plain account of the disease, and 

 of the mode of treatment, as would be available to gentlemen out of 

 the profession, as well as to those belonging to it. 



The remarks of Doct. Cartwright are always pertinent to the sub- 

 ject in hand : and in this treatise he has compressed much informa- 

 tion into' a narrow compass. He, in the first place, gives a brief ac- 

 count of the disease, as it has appeared in the various countries over 

 which it has passed ; enumerates some of the causes to which it has 

 been attributed, giving it as his opinion, that it is owing to a moving, 

 non-electric meteor ; describes with sufficient accuracy the prominent 

 symptoms : mentions the practice of authors of the greatest experi- 

 ence and celebrity, and indicates the treatment which accords best 

 with his notions of the pathology of the disease. Concerning the last 

 particular, he observes, that " the disease consists in a constant ten- 



