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ADVICE  UPON  EPIDEMIC  CHOLERA. 
provided  the  medicine  is  given  from  the  commencement  of  the 
disease.  Before  leaving  this  subject,  I  may  here  caution  the 
public  that  the  efficacious  part  of  the  plant  is  the  root.  With 
the  usual  kindness  of  Dr.  Gibson,  the  Director  General,  I  have 
been  amply  supplied  with  it  for  the  use  of  my  regiment ;  and  I 
hope  to  hear  of  it  in  every  family  medicine  chest,  and  that  it 
may  be  generally  cultivated  in  every  garden.  And  before  long 
then  we  shall  see  no  more  faces — as  described  by  Dickens — like 
the  interior  surface  of  sliced  pumpkins. 
"I  am  most  respectfully  yours, 
Cosmo  G.  Logie, 
Surg.  Maj.  Royal  Horse  Guards,  Windsor,  Eng." 
25th  May,  1863. 
ADVICE  UPON  EPIDEMIC  CHOLERA. 
By  Edward  R.  Squibb,  M.  D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
In  view  of  a  probable  invasion  of  Epidemic  Cholera,  it  is  con- 
sidered useful  to  try  to  attract  early  attention  to  the  following 
circumstances,  and  to  oifer  the  advice  which  naturally  results 
from  their  due  consideration,  to  the  end  that  the  knowledge  and 
experience  gained  in  the  medical  profession  through  previous 
epidemics  of  the  disease  may  be  more  generally  known. 
In  previous  epidemics  many  lives  were  lost,  and  much  sickness 
occurred  ; — first,  through  want  of  early  attention  ; — next,  through 
the  use  of  quack  nostrums  and  specifics,  which  are  generally 
hurtful,  and  are  made  and  advertised  to  make  monejrby  ;  and 
lastly,  through  the  want  of  simple  information  among  the  people 
as  to  the  recognition  of,  and  some  uniform  system  of  manage- 
ment for,  the  painless  curable  stages  of  the  disease. 
Cholera  usually  begins  by  a  simple  diarrhoea,  which  is  too  apt 
to  escape  notice,  particularly  in  thoughtless  persons  and  in  child- 
ren. If  it  can  fee  seen  by  physicians  in  this  early  stage,  a  large 
proportion  of  the  cases  can  be  cured  ;  and  the  earlier  it  is  seen 
by  physicians,  the  better  it  is  for  the  patients,  and  the  easier  for 
the  physicians. 
In  time  of  Cholera  every  movement  of  the  bowels  after  the 
customary  daily  one,  must  be  considered  as  a  tendency  towards 
