TO THE EDITOR OF TEE T1,r1Ts.
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SIR The treatment et the cholera,

 which has been so strikingly successful l h Coldbathfield prison, having already

 attracted considerable public attention, hasten to request of you 10 give the

 requisite publicity, through your wide { y circulated jonrhal, to remedy as simple as scientific.

 lis needless to enter upon the theo- Try of this practice, which, on sound

 data, has been suggested by Dr. Ste vens; but suffice it to say, that expe-

 rlenee has assured me of it's efficacy and value. After promising ahat upwards ot one hundred cases more or less ma lignant, have occurred, with the loss only of seven, (the first four prior 10 to the adoption of the treasinent) I shall at once describe it.

 Ihe usual care must be taken to pro- mote warmth by friction, hot dry flan- aeis, hot water bottles to the feet, and mustard pouitices to the chest and oth- CT parts of the body affected by cramp, but the main reliance is upon the fol- lowing powder, robe administered eve. y hour in half tumbaer of cold wa ter, namelys carboneta of soda half a dram; common sails 20 grains: oxy muriate ef potash 7 grains. However irritable the stomach may be, the com mon Seidlltz powder, or efferyeseent soda draught. will, in most eases. es,,;. ct It; but, when it will retain nothinp Tn quantity, tea-spoonful of the car. bonate of soda should be dissolved in hall a tulnbler cf water, and given in such quantitiesas the patient can retain. from I, tea-spoonfnl and upwards, until the stomach is sufficiently settled to re- selse tAe powder. In cases of the cho- iefa, ,howeyer, ,the mostunceasing watch. iulhess and attention to the patients are required. The success of this treat. menf, which in many instances was perfectly surprising, indueesme to hope mat It may be extensively adopted and. am sure, you will confer great peaeAs on the community at large bvits publication.

 lf1ave the honor to bo