6 MAY 1966, Page 10

ZI be Spectator

May 5, 1866

The cholera has appeared here and there, chiefly in ships. A man at Bristol, who had just come from Rotterdam, has died of it, and it has appeared in a bad form—two deaths had occurred—on an emigrant ship at Queenstown, which ship had been ordered back to Liverpool. The Indian papers record a very curious instance of the treatment of a very bad case of cholera by Dr. Chapman's method of ice to the spine,— no other remedy being at hand,—and of its complete success, to the great astonishment of the doctor who tried it.