After speaking of the various expedients resorted to for the cure of cholera, says Dr. Watson: "I believe that each, in some cases, did good, or _seemed_ to do so; but I cannot doubt that some of them did sometimes do harm. I had not more than six severe cases under my own charge, and I congratulated myself that the mortality among them was not greater than the average mortality. Three died, and three, I will not say were cured, but recovered, * * * under large and repeated doses of calomel. Yet, as I said before, I do not venture to affirm that the calomel cured them." It seems that Dr. Latham commenced the treatment and Dr. Watson followed it up, repeating the half-drachm doses of calomel many times, as the patients seemed to rally after its administration. Again, he observes: "It was remarked of those who recovered, that some got well rapidly and at once, while others fell into a state of continued fever, which frequently proved fatal, some time after the violent and peculiar symptoms ceased. Some, after the vomiting and purging and cramps had departed, died comatose--_over-drugged_--sometimes, it is to be feared, by opium. The rude discipline to which they were subjected might account for some of the cases of fever." * * * "Never, certainly, was the artillery of medicine more vigorously plied, never were her troops, regular and volunteer, more meritoriously active. To many patients, no doubt, this busy interference made all the difference between life and death. But if the balance could be fairly struck and the exact truth ascertained, I question whether we should find that the aggregate mortality from cholera in this country was any way disturbed by our craft." In a report by the acting physician to the Bellevue Hospital, made to then "Special Medical Council," August 2d, 1832, while the Epidemic Cholera was still prevailing there and in the city, the physician says: "The treatment I have divided into two kinds--the pathological and the mixed. The first having been determined on, after the careful examination of twenty-three persons dead of cholera; since then, ten more have been examined, which serve to confirm the conclusions first formed. PATHOLOGICAL TREATMENT--_First Stage._--This consisted in the administration of blue pill and opium with absolute diet. If pain was present, leeches to the epigastrium and arms, and when these could not be procured, cups to the epigastrium. This plan never failed to arrest the disease in the hands of those who diligently pursued it, where the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal canal was not previously diseased. _Second Stage._--First, Blood-letting; second, diligent frictions with the ointment alluded to above, when persons could be procured to perform the duty; third, ice to allay the thirst; fourth, small doses of brandy and laudanum, if the vomiting continues; fifth, cups to the epigastrium, if there was pain and the brandy omitted.