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d'ency 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 collapse 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 regard 

 to the best means of preventing it. By A Physician. 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 agency 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. Wagner. (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, he. 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, 



