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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 352

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 REPORTS OF SOCIETIES : ROYAL SOCIETY.

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 TREATMENT OF CHOLERA.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 there were not cramps, suppression of urine, and rice-water stools; and in most cases there was also marked collapse.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 I am, &c. Thos. Hillier,

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Sept. 27. Resident Medical Officer.

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 [To the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette.]

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Sir,—I am very glad that castor oil has been given by Dr. Johnson in all the cases of the disease generally called cholera which have come under his care at the Hospital; but, as I believe that opium and brandy should be most carefully avoided, even after the stage of collapse is safely passed, perhaps you will allow me to describe in your widely circulating columns, the treatment I adopted in nearly 200 cases at Newcastle, in 1831—2; in at least 300 cases at Hull, in 1849, and in more than 100 cases at Newcastle last year; and which effectually cured every one of these cases, a great many of them in the extremity of collapse, to whom opium or brandy, or some other stimulant, had not previously been given. Some of these cases, in collapse, to whom opium or brandy, or some other stimulant had previously been given, recovered by the treatment I adopted. My plan of treatment is as follows :—Carbonate of soda 3iij., sugar 3iij., water, 3viii. Two tablespoonsful of this mixed with one tablespoonful of lemon juice, is given in a state of effervescence every two hours, and after every vomiting, If any dose of it be rejected by vomiting, another dose is given directly after, and repeated as often as it is rejected. In a few minutes after a dose of it has been taken and retained, I give calomel gr. i., blue pill gr. i., powdered rhubarb, gr. v. This is given in a little jelly or treadle, or is made into two pills with a drop or two of water. Four or five hours after this has been taken, I give a teaspoonful of castor oil in half a wineglassful of milk. The powder is repeated every twenty-four hours, and the castor oil twelve hours after each powder, until the tongue has become clean, and the evacuations from the bowels have become natural. After the sickness and vomiting have ceased, the effervescing medicine is given every three or four hours. Warm milk, barley water, oatmeal water, or toast and water, is given as often as the thirst requires it. The patient is allowed, after the sickness and vomiting have ceased, to take a little boiled barley, or sago in milk, and chicken or weak mutton broth, either warm or cold. I use no external remedies, and apply nothing warm to any part of the body. In cases unaccompanied with sickness and vomiting, I give a dose of the effervescing medicine every three or four hours, the powder every night and the castor oil in the morning, until the diarrhoea entirely ceases. I have not called any case of this disease cholera ; and I give the name inflammation of the inner membrane of the bowels to every case of it. I have no reason to believe that the effort of vomiting is beneficial. The sickness, vomiting, and retching are very distressing symptoms, and I endeavour to relieve them as soon as possible. The effervescing medicine very speedily relieves them, and the cramps in the extremities soon abate after it has been taken; and I believe it has a very beneficial effect in correcting and allaying the diarrhoea. It may be proper to state, that I published my treatment and its result in 1832, 1836, and in the early part of the present year; and I addressed a circular last year to the members of the Profession resident at Newcastle and Gateshead, in which I described my treatment, and requested them to test its efficacy in any case they might attend. I proposed also last year, to the Board of Health at Newcastle, to attend gratuitously any number of cases they might deem requisite, to convince them that the disease may, in any of its stages, and in every instance, be cured by the treatment I described.

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 I have lately attended three cases in the extremity of collapse, one of them a woman 84 years of age; and they have recovered.

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 I am, &c. G. Tinn.

¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 Barton-upon-Humber, Sept. 18, 1854.

¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.

¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 QUACKERY.

¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 [To the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette.]

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 Sir,—I shall be obliged if you will allow the insertion of the enclosed advertisement, cut out of the Rugby Advertiser of last week, in your Journal. H. Bannister i^ a dyer and scourer by trade, and quack by profession. Perhaps you would be so good as to suggest some means for putting a stop to such quackery.

¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 I am, &c. A Subscriber.

¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 Rugby, Sept. 19,1854.

¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 ” Facts are stubborn things.”

¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 The undermentioned cures have been effected by H. BANNISTER,

¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 No. 6, West Leyes, Rugby, Within the last three months :—

¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 Mr. John Jillings, of Lawford, was cured of two broken ribs in three weeks.

¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 Miss Carter, of Dunchurch, cured of an ulcerated hand.

¶ 23 Leave a comment on paragraph 23 0 Mr. John Smith, of Spon Street, Coventry, cured of the rheumatism, of 12 years’ standing.

¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 Mr. Powell, Coventry, cured of a very bad case of St. Anthony’s fire.

¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 Elizabeth Archer, cured of two very bad legs and joints contracted.

¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 Mrs. S. Law, Church Street, Rugby, cured of a tumour in the breast.

¶ 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 Mrs. Worall, Grandborough, cured of two bad breasts.

¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 Mrs. Thompson, of Barby, cured of the scurvy and two bad breasts of ten years’ standing.

¶ 29 Leave a comment on paragraph 29 0 Moses Cowley, of Clifton, cured of an abscess in the neck.

¶ 30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 Three ladies, residing in the vicinity of Rugby, cured of the King’s evil.

¶ 31 Leave a comment on paragraph 31 0 Mrs. Walton, Thurlaston, cured of a very bad leg.

¶ 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 Other cures of King’s evil, fistulas, etc. Respectable references can be given.

¶ 33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 To prevent prejudice or doubt, NO CURE NO PAY !

¶ 34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 REPORTS OF SOCIETIES.

¶ 35 Leave a comment on paragraph 35 0 [To the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette]

¶ 36 Leave a comment on paragraph 36 0 Sir,—Will you kindly give insertion this week to the following corrected statement of the results of our treatment of cholera, as the report given last week gives quite a wrong impression. In all, 50 cases have been admitted to our Hospital; 32 cases have died, 16 recovered; while 2 remain under treatment, and will probably recover. 26 cases have been treated on Dr. Ayre’s plan, of which 11 have recovered; 8 on castor oil, of which 1 only recovered; several on hyposulphite of soda, of which none have recovered.

¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 Our treatment might have been made to appear more successful, if I had not carefully excluded all cases of choleraic diarrhoea from the enumeration, not counting any cases in which

¶ 38 Leave a comment on paragraph 38 0 ROYAL SOCIETY.

¶ 39 Leave a comment on paragraph 39 0 ON THE IMMEDIATE PRINCIPLES OF THE EXCREMENTS OF MAN AND ANIMALS IN THE HEALTHY CONDITION.

¶ 40 Leave a comment on paragraph 40 0 By WILLIAM MARCET, M.D. [Communicated by F. MARCET, F.R.S.]

¶ 41 Leave a comment on paragraph 41 0 The author describes a new method of extracting the immediate chemical constituents of the excrements of man and animals, and gives an account of the substances obtained by its employment. Healthy human faeces are boiled to exhaustion in alcohol. The residue is insoluble in ether, and yields to boiling water nothing but ammoniaco-magnesian phosphate. The strained alcoholic solution deposits, on standing, a sediment, from which it is decanted, and then mixed with milk of lime. The subsiding lime is of a yellow brown colour; it is dried on filtering-paper, and treated with ether, cold or hot; and the solution thus obtained yields, on spontaneous evaporation, beautiful silky crystals, which are purified by solution in a mixture of alcohol and ether, repeated filtration through animal charcoal, and recrystallisation ; they then appear in circular groups, have the form of acicular four-sided prisms, and polarise light very readily. This crystalline body the author proposes to call Excretine. It is very soluble in ether, cold or hot, but sparingly soluble in cold alcohol; its solution has a decided though weak alkaline re-action. It is insoluble in hot or cold water, and is not decomposed by dilute mineral acids. It fuses between 95° and 96° C., and at a higher temperature burns away without inorganic residue. When boiled with solution of potash, it does not dissolve. As to its qualitative constitution, it is found to contain nitrogen and sulphur, though in small proportions; the products of its decomposition have not yet been investigated.