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Use of Calomel in Cholera

tralize the acid of the stomach, and thus tend When cholera is prevailing, a single large, to remove heartburn, dyspepsia, and diarrhea. thin, painless, weakening action of the bowels The principal antacids are the carbonates of may be cholera begun, and the business man potassa, soda, ammonia, lime, and magnesia. should start for home in a vehicle instantly, Ammonia is the most powerful, and when calling on his physician on his way, and take the acidity is conjoined with nausea and fainthim home with him; or, if he cannot be found ness, is the best; when great irritability of immediately, get into bed as soon as possible, the coats of the stomach exist, potash is predress up warm, eat ice if thirsty, bind a thick ferable; when accompanied with diarrhea, warm flannel tightly around the abdomen, carbonate of lime (prepared chalk) ; and and wait for his doctor's arrival. A physician when with costiveness, magnesia. The dose should be called always on the instant of an of the carbonates of potassa and soda in powattack, but when it is impossible to procure der is half a tea-spoonful; of chalk, a teahis services within an hour, 10 or 20 grains of spoonful; of magnesia, a dessert-spoonful; and calomel should be taken in pill or powder, as of carbonate of ammonia, 10 grains, or a teaa means of stopping the discharges, and of spoonful of the solution. All these are taken thus arresting the disease, until the physician arrives. Calomel is generally easy to be procured, will remain on the stomach, from its heaviness, when even cold water is ejected as soon as swallowed, and is the most certain of all medicines known to stimulate the liver to action, this want of action being the fundamental cause of the disease. (Hall.)