DISEASES OF ADULT LIFE. OLk 
months from it. Russia and England were visited in 1829, 
and the number of deaths in England was 101,000. There 
was another visitation in 1849, and the lastin 1885. We 
remember both of the last, and they were ternble. It 1s to 
be hoped that in these colonies we shall never have such an 
ordeal to pass through. It may be all very well to boast of 
our better conditions, sanitation, &c., but it is not always 
possible to avert it. These dispensations of Providence are 
sent to remind us that we are mortal and win us to nghteous- 
ness. The cause of cholera is said to be a specific bacillis 
which poisons the blood, robs the body of heat, &c. The 
biood-poison acting on the nervous system causing the terrible 
Cramps with spasms and diarrhcea which are the chief 
symptoms of the deadly disease. ‘The treatment must be very 
prompt. The patient, as soon as the symptoms are detected, 
should get a large dose of the cholera powder, then, if able, 
the steam bath, or get a tubful of hot water, stir in mustard, 
stand him up to the knees and bathe the body for five or ten 
minutes ; put to bed with hot bricks to the feet and sides. 
Keep on with the cholera powder or drops, give the digestive 
food, and the blessing of saving him who was ready to perish 
shall be yours. For the experience of an eye witness see 
page 18; and asa preventive when cholera is in the district 
or county, see charcoal (page 48). 
WORMS. 
As we have already in our treatment of children’s diseases 
dealt with worms, it will only be needful to treat of one 
principal kind, not common in juveniles—that is the tape 
variety. The symptoms caused by this parasite are not very 
clear, as they often are connected with other troubles - 
sickness at the stomach, pain sometimes, the appetite is. 
voracious, wasting, and more or less hypochondria, the 
knowledge of having such an unnatural companion giving 
rise to it. Its existence is generally known from seeing 
portions of it in the evacuations. It is white, tape- 
like, but notched at the sides, and it seems to have 
