IN HORSES AND EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. 673 
ating agony they had suffered, that they doze often on losing 
their pain. 
I will now relate a human case, and its treatment. A very re¬ 
spectable middle-aged woman, in service, not far from my house, 
had eaten a free, but not very copious, dinner of liver and bacon, 
and, I believe, had taken porter instead of water with it. She 
dressed and went out in the afternoon, with a friend, to the Bazaar 
in St. James’s Street; and loitering about to look at the various 
articles, and a wind blowing through the avenues of the place at 
the time, she suddenly became uneasy, and soon in violent pain. 
She returned home as fast as she could, and complained very much 
of sickness, and a deep, oppressed, painful feeling about the prrn- 
cordia. She vomited violently, but this did not relieve her pain, 
which became excruciating. I then ordered her to shut the door 
of the apartment she was in, and to put the kettle on, with a pint 
of water—this small quantity only, that it might the sooner be 
heated ; and of this, when nearly boiling, I made her drink, as hot 
as she could in any way get it down, three parts of a pint; her vo¬ 
miting continued, however, and her pain. I next, therefore, order¬ 
ed half a pint of hot ginger tea, which she also took, but without 
relief. About an hour had passed over in this way, still in severe 
pain. I now ordered her to bed, sending with her a good pan of 
hot coals to warm it w T ell first; and to this I added a glass of hot 
gin and water, a little sweetened, which she sipped as hot as she 
could take it. In less than five minutes after, she felt a sudden 
remission of the pain; she slept w T ell after, and the next morning 
was at her work, as usual. She seemed, however, headachy to¬ 
wards the afternoon, and I recommended a dose of Glauber and 
Epsom salts mixed, which restored her usual health. 
A few days ago, a gentleman of my acquaintance, whose son 
was not unacquainted with my opinions respecting this complaint, 
was suddenly seized one evening with excruciating pains about 
the prsecordia, and unlike any thing, in point of severity, he had 
ever experienced before: he compared it to being screwed 
through with a screw. A fire was made in his room, and brandy 
and water, pretty strong, with laudanum (which I do not recom¬ 
mend), was given him by his son ; and, at the end of two hours, 
by these remedies, and with rubbing the abdomen with flannel, he 
was relieved, and was out the next day on his morning walk, when 
I saw him and heard his description of what he had gone through; 
and his son related to me what he had done for him. I consider 
myself as having been twice attacked with an arrested digestive 
process, and which, if permitted only a short time to have gone on, 
would have ended in what is called a true cholera (for names, 
though simple, are frightful things often in misleading our views). 
