The treatment recommended in the American Practice of Medicine, by Dr. W. Beach, which was fully tested by the author himself while in discharge of his official duties as physician of the Tenth Ward, city of New York, during the prevalence of cholera in 1832, is worthy of consideration on account of its simplicity, its great efficiency and wonderful success. "Among all the medicines," says the author, "ever given or proposed in the incipient or premonitory stage, none will be found so efficacious as our neutralizing mixture, made of genuine materials and given very strong. Occasionally, it may be proper to add fifteen or twenty drops of laudanum; this, however, is very seldom necessary. A vast number of medicines are recommended in this stage of cholera, but there are none, I am convinced, so efficacious as the above." In the second, or confirmed stage, the same medicine was continued in larger and more frequent doses, with hot fomentations to the abdomen, stimulating lotions, sinapisms and injections. The cholera drops were also administered, composed according to the following formula: Rx. Tincture of Capsicum, Tincture of Opium, Spirits of Camphor, Essence of Peppermint. Equal parts--mix. Give a tea-spoonful every hour or half hour, according to the severity of the symptoms. In the third, or collapsed stage, he directed a tea-spoonful of pulverized black pepper to be mixed and given in a tumblerful of hot gin-sling; also, the same to be prepared and applied hot to the bowels and extremities. Also, to two tea-spoonfuls of either pulverized red or black pepper, pour on a sufficient quantity of hot water, let it stand till nearly cold; strain and inject the whole up the bowel. This would often arouse the patient in the collapsed stage when there was little or no hope of recovery. Such are in brief the remedies which were used so successfully in the Tenth Ward of this city, in 1832. Here it will be noticed that the general principal evolved in this treatment consists in its prompt and diffusive stimulant, its antispasmodic and corrective power so combined as to act gently and kindly, yet promptly and successfully, as the records show, to which we shall refer in the sequel. Another mode worthy of a passing notice is one analogous to this, adopted and recommended by the eminent Dr. G. S. Hawthorne, of Liverpool, England, who observes: "Of the medicinal remedies, the chief is opium. This, I have explained, should be given in combination with medicines of a cordial, stimulating and antispasmodic character, of which the most efficient are camphor, capsicum, ether and aromatic spirits of ammonia. The following formulæ present the combination of the medicines which I would prefer:" Rx. Powdered Opium, gr. xij. Camphor, gr. xxx. Capsicum, gr. ix.