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Remedy for Cholera . 
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The above remarks may have some slight degree of interest to those of your rea- 
ders who are as yet unacquainted with Geology. If so, they are at your service— 
and I shall conclude with an expression to you individually, of my warmest thanks 
for your exertions in the cause of Science. Your periodical has given a new impetus 
to that spirit of enquiring, which has of late manifested itself so strongly among the 
Company’s servants. For myself I may say “ non nostrum taut as componere 
lites but though an inactive, I shall still be an interested spectator of the progress 
made by the Indian School of Science, and am 
Your constant reader, 
Note by the Editor. OmiCRoN. 
We must take merit to ourselves for the remark we hazarded, if only for haring 
produced the preceding letter, which will we think be considered highly interesting 
by our readers- While we give our correspondent every credit lor the candour 
and ability with which he has combated the tenour of our remarks, we must, how- 
ever unwilling to differ from one so capable of forming an opinion on the subject, 
confess that we still think all the philosophy, if not all the talent, was on the side of 
the Hiittonians. We are afraid, that if we were to make a full profession of our 
geological faith, our correspondent would find us tainted with more heresies than 
we should care to acknowledge at this early period of our editorial labours. 
A very full discourse has been recently delivered by Dr. Fitton, before the Geolo- 
gical Society of London, on quitting the chair of President; in which he lias taken a 
view of the recent progress, and present state of Geology. Dr. Fitton seems to be 
something like ourselves, an admirer of Playfair ; and he makes favorable mention 
of his views in different parts of his speech. In particular, the very dogma alluded 
to by our correspondent, “that he saw nothing in the phenomena of Geology, but 
the ordinary operations of actual causes, carried on in the same manner through 
infinite ages,” appears to be not very far removed from the conclusion at which Dr. 
F. has arrived, that, “the more recent views, which regard a certain class of causes 
as having ceased from acting, will probably give place to an opinion that the forces 
from whence the present appearances have resulted, are in Geology, as in Astrono- 
my, and in General Physics, permanently connected with the constitution and struc- 
ture of the globe.” Our correspondent will find a notice in our present number, 
of the opinions of Baron Femssac, which appear, also, to favor Playfair’s views. 
We mention these particulars merely to show our correspondent, that there is not 
in the geological world that unanimous rejection of the Huttonian views, on this 
particular point, which he assumes. For our own parts we lay little stress on opi- 
nions, however great the authority by which they are supported ; and notwith- 
standing our admiration of Playfair, we should be as sorry to pass for an exclu- 
sive Huttonian as for a Wernerian. Our remark was, we think, natural in one who 
had read with attention, the very acute and subtle arguments by which Dr. Murray 
proves so satisfactorily, that no such source and supply of heat, as the Huttonians 
wanted for their theory, could exist, while he finds no difficulty whatever, in having 
on his hands an ocean of water, covering the globe to the height of five miles above 
its present surface, however unable to say what had become of it. 
V.— Remedy for Cholera . 
The following remedy for Cholera is taken from the work of Hermannus Vander 
Heyden, a physician of Ghent ; dated 1653. It is sufficiently curious to deserve a 
place amongst our Gleanings, and as it is on a subject fearfully interesting in this 
country, our readers will, we doubt not, thank us for the sound advice which it con- 
tains, as well as for the remedy Itself, which we believe to be such, as will be ap- 
proved of by competent judges. 
The second discourse of the disease called by Physicians , Cholera . 
I shall in the next place come to speak of the disease called Cholera, which as 
it is most swift and violent in its progress, so is it usually also most dangerous, and 
destructive, so that I could not forbear, with all the speed I could, to give an account 
of the nature of this disease, to the end that the fury of it (which is sometimes so 
