The Standard of this evening insists that there is no
Asiatic cholera in London at present; deprecates alarm, as tending to produce the very evil dreaded in sharp disorders; and to allay what apprehension may exist, quotes a long extract from a pamphlet by Dr. Parkin, recommending tiro specific remedies. In the earlier stages of the disease, Dr. Parkin admi- nisters carbonic acid gas, in the form of the ordinary effervescing draughts —Seltzer water, soda water, or the common draught procured by mixing carbonate of soda with citric or tartaric acid. It should be swallowed be- fore the effervescence ceases. The addition of a syrup also helps to pre- vent the too rapid escape of the gas. In the later stages, he administers pure charcoal; or, in default of procuring that, chalk, in the form of the ordinary " chalk-mixture." This treatment, says the 'Standard, " coincides almost precisely with the practice of that able and excellent man, Dr. Macann, (unhappily now lost to the world,) who is described as a saving angel' in the Rev. Mr. Leigh's History of the Cholera at Bilsion; where, it may be remembered, the cholera fell more severely than upon any other town in England. Within a week after. Dr. Macann 's arrival at Bilston, the deaths diminished one-half, and in a fortnight the disease had disappeared." Dr. Parkin says that his treatment has failed in only three cases out of thousands.
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