gaelx. and the instinctive desire for cold
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Tack, and the instructive desire for cold water, Or even ice, may hc gratisied n moderation. The proper nourisfment in eonvalescence, the only time when any is wanted or to be allowed, IS chick en water or beef tea, rendered agreea- bly pungent with cayenne pepper Thus have hastily laid before you an outline of ny mode of managing this terrible disease. It may be observed that. with scarcely an exception, it is deplctory or eyacuent. Delnded by false appearances of debility in the dis ease, and still more by the weight ofau- thoritY, l adopted when it first broke out among Us, in common with my medi- cal friends, q course of practice in con formity with such an impression; and most disastrous was the issue. Nearly every patient, amounting to five or six, died. The prominent indications seem ed 10 call for heat to the surface, and the internal exhibition of the dit1uslble exeitants. Every variety of bath, hot water, vapour, heated air and topical applications of hot sand, or oats, or salt, Nc., were used, and also frictions with the spirits of turpentine alone, or united with camphorated mcrcnrial ointment, and other articles. Brandy, ether, cam phor, vol. alkali, sNc. &e. were in suc- cession tried, aud the whole of these means with no other effect, than an in conceivable evaporation. The suffer ing, indeed, induced, was as great as have ever witnessed from the applica- ton of any remedial process. No prac- tical lesson is more important than, that in the cure of this disease, all such ap- piances and medicines afe= naisehieyous, ill cyacuations are promised, and linen to he most disereetly directed.

 1t were easy to acquaint you with di- vers other methods of treating this cpl damic, or 10 enumcrate anumber ofspe- eiai iemeaies that have been proposed. Dismayed, as it were, by the fearful character of the disease, practitioners have been too prone in it's treatment, to abandon their principles and well tried remedies, in analogous cases, to seek a resource in specifics and nostrums.

 do not mean to vaunt of my success, but on fair comparison of all have seen attempted, l am led to an unquali- fled preference ofmy own plan. ltcan-j not be charged with being tentative or empirical--is dedueed from established views of pathology and therapeutics, and is sanctioned in most of its features' hy the heightened and concurrent expe- fience ofthe distinguished and authori- fative writers on the disease in India. Many may be cured by if, and some will sink under the force of the attack in despite of your efforts. The case not being too far advanced, a triumph over the disease is pretty certain. Cholera is, on the whole, more tractabe than yellow fever, or the winter pcstilence, which devastated our country during the late war.

 Ever, my dear sir,

 Yours, most truly,

 N. CHAPMAN.