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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...are ordinarily required, and the pain which is ordinarily severe in the early days, becomes gradually less. The injections are always made with the patient lying upon the side and through a Sims' speculum. Schultze says that after twenty injections the growth is usually diminished one-half in size and presents the appearance of a healthy, granulating ulcer. Bleeding ceases entirely and the discharge is without odor. The method certainly seems worthy of an extended trial. DEPARTMENT OF THERAPEUTICS. lN CHARGE OK W. H. CHRISTlE, M. D. Treatment of Cholera.--The Brooklvn Medical Journal, in a special number, gives a stenographic report of the meeting of the Medical Society of Kings Co., L. I., called to take especial measures referable to cholera. The subject of treatment was assigned to Dr. John A. McCorkle, from this journal we give this synopsis: The treatment most suitable in the first stage of cholera, that of premonitory diarrhoea, ofttimes becomes positively harmful in the second or the so-called "blue stage' of the disease. The first essential in the management of a case of cholera is rest--absolute rest. This is imperative. During the prevalence of cholera, even a slight diarrhoea should receive prompt attention. Rest in the recumbent posture must be enjoined, and the patient should not be permitted to get out of bed to go to stool, and should be urged to resist as much as possible the inclination to evacuate the bowels. In the premonitory diarrhoea of true cholera, remedial agents are very effectual and many lives have been saved by their timely use. Before the stage of collapse the indication is to control the intestinal effusion. A majority of observers are agreed that opium is the most potent remedy at our command. It may be combined with oth...