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an absence of the full co-ordination of man's composition and re- 
lations. Many depressions are the occasion of the system's passage 
into cholera — e.g., a common seidlitz, a night's debauch, a night 
exposure, an unaccustomed fatigue, a change of diet or water, a 
change from the warmth of Bengal to the tonic sea clime, &c. 
The non-specific character of cholera seen in that many so-called 
different diseases show at times a choleraic type — e.g., bronchitis, 
fever, &c. 
The general and wide relations of cholera are seen in its broad 
characters; the intervals of freedom and recurrence ; the phenomena 
has a definite proportion to the population ;' a definite curve of rise, 
culmination, and subsidence ; a definite mortality in different stages 
of the outbreak. Such characters class cholera with physical and 
other culminations, recurrences, and affections, or phenomena of 
matter, and indicate profound partship with the entirety of man's 
relations with and of existences. The direction of remedy is to 
correlate his system's composition, that thus the conserving power 
is sustained. Yaccination, iodine, arsenic, bromine, quinine, sea- 
soning fevers, length of tropical residence, have severally effected 
this co-ordination against many diseased changes; a change from 
the East to the West Indies has very much removed the East 
Indian's tendency to cholera. A batch of East Indian emigrants 
will show cholera on experiencing the first shock of the change to 
the sea; but soon cases cease; the change to the sea has been 
preventive. 
To treat the symptoms is but to attack debris ; nay, it is worse 
than useless. 
May we hope that in the future we shall cease to assert on and 
believe in the value of vain treatments ; but a sneering scepticism 
is as foolish as the blind confidence of ignorance. 
Are we not sure that the great modern generalizations and ideas 
in geological periods and rates, in linguistic evolution, in the cor- 
relation of forces, &c, &c, will soon influence our method of 
viewing cholera and disease, and that the method of analogy will 
light us on the path of prevention. 
