Excerpt from Cholera, Vol. 2 of 2: Its Protean Aspects and Its Management

It certainly is a sad travesty upon therapeu tic progress when the members of the profession at large, as voiced by Thos. Hawkes Tanner, and by The Lancet, of London, * is forced to confess it is folly to talk of curing cholera since the very prin ciples which should guide are undetermined, that we may be comforted by the better knowledge of the diffusion of the disease, and the better powers of sanitary authorities for resisting it, and the more we study allied diseases, and learn effectually to cope with them, the greater confidence we may feel in contemplating the invasion of a malady wink/z ad mits of so little saz'z'sfactnry treatment, etc., that it is unknown whether ultimate convalescence depends upon a persistence of the intestinal evacuations, or upon their suppression!

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