1 iii '.four, and fluS oilier in six wwb. At the* same period, if
2 happened that several cases of sporadic cholera occurred; aud,
3 having ascertained llie before-mentioned apparatus to be effica¬
4 cious, and persuaded, as I was, of the benefit of my rings, which
5 are composed of the same materials—silver rthI s:inc—1 deter¬
6 mined to male an experiment with the apparatus upon these
7 cholera cores, which proved to be of the greatest utility. It
8 was quite natural that when I imagined I had solved that
9 enigmatical' question—dhe positive method of coring cholera—I
10 should endeavour to put my method itl practice during the
11 raging of tluit epidemic in Vienna; and I accordingly made
12 application to the Minister of the Interior, soliciting him to allow
13 me to attend some of the cholera patients at. title hospital. The
14 minister consented; but.the interval between u»y soliciting and
15 obtaining the permission a as ho Tong, that the real type of the
16 disease no longer existed i the cases were mere unihgaant cholera-
17 typhus. Scarcely one of those I saw at the hospital rmneicch
18 I only attended three patients. The first removed the apparatus
19 from Inr le dv, without any one being cognisant of the fact,
20 and diet! on the following day; the second was brought to the
21 hospital it; a senseless, dying condition, so that 1 thought it.
22 unnecessary to apply the plates; and the third patient continued
23 to e\is until tlu eleventh day. As the cholera-patients, how.
24 ever, with or without appetite, -were compelled to subsist on
25 meat soups containing parsley, celery, onions, &e.; and the
26 medicine- which were administered were prepared by their own
27 apothecary; and ns the disease was on the decline ; 1 discontinued
28 my attendance, without, arriving at any definite conclusion.
29 At Lahore, T performed some operations while the patients
30 were under I lie influence of chloroform; and among these were
31 two boys who were troubled with stone in the bladder. Both
32 were operated oil with the apparatus ultits, with the assistance
33 of Dr. Hath way, the -urgeon to the Residency, But the operation
34 on one of them, the most healtby-lpoking lad, terminated fatally,
35 which may be attributed to the stone being attached to the
36 mucous membrane of tiie bladder. The mother of this hov gave