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2 in four, and the other in six weeks. At the same period, it
3 happened that several cases of sporadic cholera occurred ; and,
4 having ascertained the before-mentioned apparatus to be effica-
5 cious, and persuaded, as I was, of the benefit of my rings, which
6 are composed of the same materials — silver and zinc — I deter-
7 mined to make an experiment with the apparatus upon these
8 cholera cases, which proved to be of the greatest utility. It
9 was quite natural that when I imagined I had solved that
10 enigmatical question — the positive method of curing cholera — I
11 should endeavour to put my method in practice during the
12 raging of that epidemic in Vienna; and I accordingly made
13 application to the Minister of the Interior, soliciting him to allow
14 me to attend some of the cholera patients at the hospital. The
15 minister consented ; but the interval between my soliciting and
16 obtaining the permission was so long, that the real type of the
17 disease no longer existed : the cases were mere malignant cholera-
18 typhus. Scarcely one of those I saw at the hospital recovered.
19 I only attended three patients. The first removed the apparatus
20 from her body, without any one being cognisant of the fact,
21 and died on the following day ; the second was brought to the
22 hospital in a senseless, dying condition, so that I thought it
23 unnecessary to apply the plates ; and the third patient continued
24 to exist until the eleventh day. As the cholera-patients, how-
25 ever, with or without appetite, were compelled to subsist on
26 meat soups containing parsley, celery, onions, &c. ; and the
27 medicines which were administered were prepared by their own
28 apothecary; and as the disease was on the decline; I discontinued
29 my attendance, without arriving at any definite conclusion.
30 At Lahore, I performed some operations while the patients
31 were under the influence of chloroform ; and among these were
32 two boys who were troubled with stone in the bladder. Both
33 were operated on with the apparatus altus, with the assistance
34 of Dr. Hath way, the surgeon to the Residency. But the operation
35 on one of them, the most healthy-looking lad, terminated fatally,
36 which may be attributed to the stone being attached to the
37 mucous membrane of the bladder. The mother of this boy gave
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