A DISSERTATION ON THE EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. 651 
but imperfectly administered, then a protracted case will be the 
issue, accompanied with those apparently anomalous effects upon 
the brain and nervous system which often, or generally, end 
fatally. So that the perfect resuscitation of these offices is indis¬ 
pensably necessary for the accomplishment of the restoration of 
the sufferer : and we may also see, on this taking place, a return 
of the most perfect health ; that is, if the case has not been of 
the severest, and its removal has been speedily accomplished, 
and without much delay, as we might prove in the history of 
hundreds of cases, which shews most plainly that there can be 
neither contagion nor any thing fatally depressing about the 
disorder, even hardly a moment longer than its actual invasion; 
so that the very same day, or the next day, the patient can return 
to his usual occupations, of which there is no example, I believe, 
after an attack of one of those diseases which are by practitioners 
generally admitted to be really and truly of a contagious character. 
Sydenham recommends also gum arabic and barley-water, 
with a view, apparently, to sheath and protect the coats of the 
stomach and bowels from the acrimony of the supposed bilious 
discharges. And w'e have thought, if to our hot water were 
added a little farina of some kind, as flour, starch, oatmeal, or 
arrow-root, if at hand, it would more readily lead on to the com¬ 
mencement of the digestive process, than mere water, but not at 
all given with any view to sheath the mucous membranes from 
supposed bile or acrimony of any kind. A gentle stimulation 
with spices might also be not incongruously added to these fari¬ 
naceous liquids; as Kyan or white pepper, especially if stale 
pork, conger, shell-fish, such as muscles, or unripe melon, has 
been the offending article. 
Having thus copiously remarked on the works of this valuable 
writer, and as most of the other writers of eminence have gene¬ 
rally drawn from him and partaken largely of his views, so we 
shall not proceed to a further consideration of them, but in 
respect to a more suitable name for it, and a more appropriate 
locality in the general system of medicine; submitting, with all 
due deference, what we have to say on this head to the correction 
of abler heads and more practised hands than ours, for the devising 
something better; hoping that every attempt, however feeble, 
that leads to another attempt, may be thought a step and an 
advancement. 
If, in following our suggestion, we may be permitted to place 
it along with its proper family, as we believe it to be, of the 
Colica, we should next propose to inscribe it, for its specific 
name, with the term tridolor, in allusion, as the reader will per¬ 
ceive, to its three distressing accompaniments, vomiting, diarrhoea. 
