From the Country, the intelligence is good. With the exception
of Hetton' where there are still .5, and North Shields and its neighbour- hood, where there are 29, there are but 3 cases in all England out of London.
In Scotland, the disease has nearly left the East coast, where only 6 cases now remain, Including 2 in Edinburgh. Musselburgh, where the cases were so numerous' has now only 4 cases, and Tranent and Haddington are free. In Glasgow and its neighbourhooda wide word—there are 29 cases, and in Paisley 1.5. Besides these, there are . but 7 cases remaining in Scotland.
An instance of the impossibility of tracing the diffusion of the dis- ease to communication, occurred in East Lothian on the 28th; on which day there were 5 cases and 3 deaths, in Stenton, a little village about five miles from Haddington, and maintaining a daily intercourse with it. While the disease raged in Haddington, Stenton remained free ; but when it had entirely ceased at Haddington, then Stenton
was visited. A Scotch correspondent of the Times, who assumes the name of Hydrophobias, has a theory, that the disease arises from
drinking surface water. He recommends that water for drinking should be always boiled. It happens, unluckily for his theory, that Haddington is wholly supplied with water from wells.
Our demand, lust week, for some description of the treatment re- quired for the Diarrlicea--which most of the medical practitioners
agree precedes cholera—has procured for us two communications, —one private, from a medical gentleman who has been most successful in treating cases of cholera in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, the other in the shape of a pamphlet by Dr.. D. B. White of Newcastle. Dr. White says—" I order my patients, when they retire to bed, to be washed with wenn water, and smartly rubbed with a towel ; afterwards to have the feet bathed, and to take a pill composed of prepared calo- mel, six grains, and one grain of opium ; to be followed in the morning by a dose of castor oil, with a few drops of laudanum; or, what is probably better under ordinary circumstances, a powder consisting of powder of rhubarb half a drachm and eight grains of ground ginger. This simple formula I may have to repeat ; but I never knew it to fail. I may here observe, that the doses of medicine prescribed, are- proportioned to adults." We translate Dr. White's recipe, for the generarreader. Our private Correspondent, whose ample experience we know, describes more generally the same remedies. He says" The practice
which I adopted was to give small doses of calomel and opium, and an occasional dose of castor oil in ordinary cases. If (as it happened at times) a case occurred that resisted these means, blood-letting was added to the internal remedies, and with certain success."
A cure for cholera, said to have been eminently successful in the- case of the Jews at Weisniz, appeared in the Times of Thursday, in all the honours of conspicuous type. Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus. The remedy, such as it is, was given in the papers some eight or ten weeks back:, and, unless our memory fail us, in the Times its,elf. We
attach not the slightest value to it,—unless, perhaps, in cases where no remedy is required ; and in these, it may not, perhaps, retard recovery more than other specifics. The Privy Council have issued a proclamation, continuing the Me- dical Boards where now established, and also calling on every prac--
titioner Great Britain to report, under a penalty, all and every case of" the disease called the cholera, or the Indian or spasmodic cholera," that may come under his care, and also every case of every other dis- ease "any wise resembling the same." If this do not get cases enow, there remains one more expedient—the Council may order reports of every other disease "not resembling the same."
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