376 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
anxiety, cold sweats, a blue appearance of the face, extreme 
debility; ifthe disease advances, cramps and hiccough occur. It 
may terminate fatally in 48 hours or less. Inthe treatment of 
this trouble the botanic system is most successful. Thousands 
have been saved by it. Our want of space forbids us giving 
many such examples. We will give, (1.) A merchant in his 
office was taken suddenly ill. The blood seemed to recede 
from the surface of his body, intolerable pains, and the other 
Symptoms. An herbalist friend happened to call just then.. 
He ran out and procured some of Coffin’s anti-cholera powder 
(see index), put a full teaspoonful in a half pint of hot waters: 
there was no time to wait for it to settle; he drank it. Ina short 
time he gave him another. This removed the trouble that 
in all likelihood would have senthimto hs grave. (2.) Aman 
after returning from his work took ill in a similar way. He 
went to the closet in the garden. is wife wondered why he 
stayed so long. She went out and found him apparently dead.. 
She ran to the house, where she fortunately had cayenne 
pepper. She put about half an ounce in a cup half full of 
water, sweetened, and got it down his throat. In a few 
minutes she got him into the house, when he soon recovered.. 
(3.) An old man living by himself was nearly dead ; to use his 
own way of putting it, his inside was purged out. Our country 
traveller gave him a teaspoonful of the cholera drops, and then 
sold him the 1/- bottle. In half an hour his bowels were 
settled; his life saved. These cases will show the power of 
our simple remedies. The cholera powder will, as a rule, be 
all that is needed, but if the painful Straining is very great,. 
give the remedy for dysentery, also injection ; hot cayenne 
fomentations over the abdomen. and the slippery elm food 
will complete the cure. 
ASIATIC CHOLERA 
Is similar to the above, but partakes more of the character of 
a plague. Its first appearance was in India in 1817, Ina 
few weeks after its outbreak 10,000 people were swept away }. 
the year following 1800 deaths took place in Calcutta in three 
