"Other methods of restoring warmth were had recourse to, such as frictions with the hand or by the flesh-brush, or rubbing the body with some strong stimulant embrocation, compounded of garlic, capsicum, camphor, cantharides, or other powerful irritants. Mustard poultices also were often applied to the feet and abdomen, blisters with or without an addition of oil of turpentine, the part having been previously rubbed with hot sand; and in cases supposed to be urgent, the mineral acids, and even boiling water, were employed for the purpose of producing instant vesication." "And, again, we read of those who tried to stimulate the waning powers of life by galvanism, acupuncture of the heart, issues, setons, moxas, actual cautery along the spine, and, lastly, by small pieces of linen dipped in alcohol distributed over the body and then set fire to!!!" Such are some of the means which have been used in the treatment and cure of cholera. "The failure of such powerful means at length caused most practitioners to confine themselves to checking the diarrhoea, which so frequently precedes cholera, and subsequently, to obviating symptoms as they arose," and for this purpose, returned to and adopted a very simple stimulating mixture, recommended by the Board of Health: Rx. Pulveris Aromat., dram iij. Tinc. Catechu, " x. Tinc. Cardamom, C., " vj. Tinc. Opii, " j. Mixt. Cretæ Preparat., ounce xx. M.----S., j ounce, as necessary. Tinc. Kino, or the decoctum Hæmatoxyli, were sometimes added. These remedies, it is said, frequently arrested the attack altogether. If, however, the disease proceeded and the cold stage of cholera formed, the same remedies were prescribed in an effervescing draught. "To promote reaction in cholera and diarrhoea, the following formula has met with most universal approval in this country and in India. So highly is it valued, indeed, that it is ordered to be always in store, and in readiness in the _Medical Field Companion_ of the army when on the march: Rx. Ol. Anisi, } Ol. Cajeput, } [=a][=a]. dram ss. Ol. Juniper, } Æther, ounce ss. Liquor Acid. Haleri,[I.] dram ss. Tinc. Cinnam., ounce ij. M.----S.: ten drops every fifteen minutes, in a table-spoonful of water. An opiate may be given with the first and second dose, but should not be continued." The learned author to whom we have referred, after detailing some of the various expedients employed in the treatment and cure of cholera, sums up the whole under the common term--failure--and, in effect, declares the most powerful remedial agents ineffective and useless in controlling and subduing this disease.