Mr. Forward, while superintending some of the public works in the State of Kentucky, in 1832, had in his employ more than two hundred laborers, among whom the Cholera Epidemic of that year appeared about a week before its irruption in Louisville. The first case was that of a young, sober, industrious white laborer, who was at the time vigorous and apparently healthy. It was a sudden and severe case and occurred about eleven o'clock at night. The physicians who usually attended these men were at a distance, and could not be obtained without considerable delay. Under these circumstances, Mr. Forward, after visiting the patient, becoming acquainted with the symptoms, and believing it a genuine case of cholera, commenced treatment at once, fearing, as he states, the patient could not live till a physician could be obtained. It was, indeed, a desperate case; violent spasms, with constant vomiting and severe purging, attended with that livid appearance and peculiar coldness so characteristic of the disease. "Of the treatment," says Mr. Forward, "I gave him first a quick, stimulating emetic prepared from the lobelia seed, which checked the vomiting and purging, but had little effect upon the spasms. I then applied the steam bath, having his feet and legs at the same time immersed in water as warm as he could bear, which was made strong with salt and wood ashes. I then sweetened a tumbler of warm water and put into it a tea-spoonful of "number six," and about the fourth part of a tea-spoonful of Cayenne pepper, and gave him one-third of it when I commenced sweating him, and the balance at intervals while he was sweating. By the time he had been sweated ten minutes, he was free from spasms and pain, but I continued the sweating ten or fifteen minutes longer, then wiped dry, after which the patient laid down and went to sleep--being thus relieved and cured."