Much may undoubtedly be done to prevent this dreaded disease by attention to cleanliness, and by disinfectants, and none of these things should be omitted.

There is, however, in nearly all cases, a premonitory diarrhoea, and if this be effectually treated there is little danger of the full development of the disease. Prudent and intelligent people who give prompt attention to any occurrence of diarrhoea during the prevalence of the disease rarely have cholera.

If the diarrhoea occurs in a young child, full doses of paregoric should be given every time the bowels move. If more than eight years old, full doses of laudanum should be given, together with acetate of lead and bismuth. For an adult, twenty-five to forty drops of laudanum, or, instead, one-sixth to one-quarter grain of morphine after every movement of the bowels. Small doses of red pepper, in addition to the opiates, are useful. The above treatment, taken in time, will prevent the further development of the disease in almost every case.

The treatment of cholera, when fully developed, does not differ during the first stages from that recommended during the premonitory diarrhoea, except that the opiates should be given in larger doses. After collapse has taken place there is little that can be done with any hope of success. Sometimes active treatment in this stage does harm; it rarely does good. The body should be kept warm by the application of dry heat. The nutrition should be kept up, and brandy and water may be given frequently in small quantities.

A Famous Cholera Mixture

More than forty-years ago, when it was found that prevention for the Asiatic cholera was easier than cure, the learned doctors of both hemispheres drew up a prescription, which was published (for working people) in The New York Sun, and took the name of "The Sun Cholera Mixture." It was found to be the best remedy for loosenesss of the bowels ever yet devised. It is to be commended for several reasons. It is not to be mixed with liquor, and therefore will not be used as an alcoholic bever age. Its ingredients are well known among all the common people, and it will have no prejudice to combat; each of the materials is in equal proportions to the others, and it may therefore be compounded without professional skill; and as the dose is so very small, it may be carried in a tiny phial in the waistcoat pocket, and be always at hand. It is:

Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne, tincture of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint, and spirits of camphor. Mix well. Dose fifteen to thirty drops in a wine glass of water, according to age and violence of the attack. Repeat every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is obtained. No one who takes it in time will ever have the cholera. Even when no cholera is anticipated, it is a valuable remedy for ordinary summer complaints, and should always be kept in readiness.