Dissolve, and add diluted sulphuric acid, half a drachm; mix, and take a table-spoonful every hour. In all forms of diarrhœa, the feet should be kept warm, and a hot bath, if procurable, will, in every instance, be found beneficial. The diet should always be soft and nutritious, but not liquid; the best dietary consists of thick arrow-root, made with milk, blanc mange, tapioca, sago, and semolina puddings, made with eggs, and eaten moderately cool; and when animal food is given, it should consist in the first instance of boiled meats, and the stomach very cautiously brought back to digest roast or hard substances. CHOLERA. Although Cholera has, by the interposition of Providence, decreased in virulence, and the cases that occur are comparatively few, it is well to incorporate in our medical directions the circular issued by the Royal College of Physicians relative to the treatment of this fatal disease. In any case of sudden emergency, where medical attendance cannot be immediately procured, these instructions will be of the greatest use. “1. No degree of looseness of the bowels should be neglected for a single hour. Medical advice should be at once sought when the looseness begins; and, previous to the arrival of a medical attendant, some of the medicines at other times used for checking diarrhœa should be taken:—for example, the chalk mixture; the compound cinnamon powder; or the compound chalk powder with opium, in doses from 20 to 40 grains for an adult. “2. No saline aperients or drastic purgatives should be taken without the advice of a medical man. “3. Intemperance in eating or drinking is highly dangerous; but the moderate use of vegetable as well as animal food may be recommended, and, in general, such a plan of diet as each individual has found, by experience, to be most conducive to his health; for any considerable change in the diet to which a person has been accustomed, is seldom advisable during the prevalence of an epidemic. “4. Debility, exhaustion, and exposure to damp, render the poor especially subject to the violence of the disease. The committee urge upon the rich the necessity of supplying those in need with food, fuel, and clothing. “5. The extreme importance of removing or counteracting all impurities, whether in the air, water, or soil—as by ventilation, cleanliness, and the free use of the chloride of lime or chloride of zinc—cannot be too strongly insisted upon. “Lastly, since the reports made to the College of Physicians show that of the persons who were engaged about the sick in the last epidemic, the number of those who were attacked by the disease was, in proportion, exceedingly small, the fear of infection may be practically disregarded.”