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effecton the disease: of calomel, he observes, that it was much more used formerly 
than now, and he ends with a list of the cholera mixtures published officially in 
the Batavia Courant. We select one or two of those least used with us. 
(4) R. Infus, Valerian, .... 3v. (5) R. Calomiels. o,00 o0:.0:00,3> 46) OF 
Ol. Cajapooti,...... Si—ii. Camphor, elect.. .. gr. viii 
Ether Sulph. acet..... 3ii QD DORs cle ccpypiensit non OTe AD 
A spoonful every hour. Saech. AID, . 6 éevo> 030) 3l 
divide in puly. vi. 
One to be taken every quarter 
of an hour. 
(6) R. Ol. Phosphor, .... 38. ( 3i Gi) Bl Aids Reba sso cosere eons on BAN, 
continet Phosphor .. gr. ii) Arcet, | Morp Bats a5 js:e)s' 00:0, £0» 1, 
Pulv. Gum Arab. ...... 3i M. as the former, 
Aq. Menth........ as paaeev (8) R. Ol. Jatrophe,........0+ 3i 
Mini Opitibs css. cs Sta0% ore | Bl Pulv. Gum Arab........ 31 
M. f. emulsio Aq. Menth.. .....;. wn oth 
as the former. M. every hour two spoonsful. 
II. The length of our observations on this first article renders a detailed account of 
the succeeding on the same subject unnecessary, by H. ScuriuetT, Surgeon Major of 
the Royal Netherland Marine. He inquires into the name of the disease, its cause, 
(in which he is an opponent of contagion) its effects, its species, its diagnosis, 
its treatment, (and here he quotes largely from the works of our Indian Sur- 
geons, JoHNSON, CorsyNn, Boyie, TyTier, &c.) and then the post-mor- 
tem appearances. In these he chiefly notices the state of the brain, and 
gives a plate of that organ, its vessels loaded with blood, and the dura ma- 
ter deeply stained with inflammation. He also gives a figure of a portion of 
the stomach and the jejunum. In an account of the prophylactics, he takes 
notice of the dispute respecting the effects of bad rice in exciting the disease. 
“Tt is well known, that Dr. Tyriur connected the food of the Hindoos with this 
disease, and on account of the bad qualities of the last rice crop, which is their 
daily food, he ascribed this epidemic sickness to that ; thereupon his well-known 
work saw the light, endeavouring to ascribe the epidemic which has prevailed in 
different parts of the world, for many years, to the bad qualities of the rice, on 
which account he gives to the Indian cholera the name of morbus oryzeus; bad 
food is doubtless one of the chief predisposing causes of this disease, but cer- 
tainly not the proximate cause.” P. 178. 
III. The next article is a dissertation on the origin of the Japanese, by Dr. Vonsin- 
BoLD. Like all other eastern nations, these people pretend to a divine origin and 
unfathomable antiquity. The race of gods, called TewsEN Setsip At, had employed 
themselves, somewhat unsatisfactorily we should think, for millions of years in 
hovering over the land of Nippon: at lenyth the seventh in succession to the celestial 
throne, by name Tsanace Namik, with his wife, came to the resolution of descend- 
ing from the clouds on Japan, and there multiplying like men, they produced a race 
of demigods of limited but very long life, and dignified with polysyllabic names, 
European antiquarians have given various interpretations of this fable, with 
which we need not trouble our readers. Four different opinions are entertained 
respecting the origin of the Japanese :— 
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