From the foregoing it will be seen that a thorough trial was made during a period of 25 days without any satisfactory result. At the same time I do not wish to discourage others from making a fresh trial if they wish to do so ; my object now is to record what I did, the conclusion I arrived at, &c., &c., in order that others may judge whether it is right or otherwise for them to take up valuable time in further carrying out the
experiment.
simple remedy that I should like to see tried extensively than it has been hitherto. I allude to the daily administration of dilute sulphuric acid as a prophylactic against cholera. In one night in April 1873, in the female ward in the Burdwan jail, there were three cases of cholera out of 25 women. The disease had been previously raging in the town and district. iS'oxt. day I had made large jars of sulphuric acid mixture, each half ounce of which contained 15 of the dilute acid. The prisoners daily, morning and evening, were brought up in line, and the native doctor from one end, and compounder from the other, gave to each man his half ounce dose. The prisoners liked it, and fully believed that it would There is one
more
FREE SULPHUROUS ACID AS A PROPHYLACTIC
AGAINST CHOLERA. TO THE 'EDITOR OF THE
"
INDIAN MEDICAL
GAZETTE."
the Indian Medical Gazette, No. 3, March 1st, 1875, I pee a letter from Surgeon-Mnjor C. R. G. Parker, of the 12th Regiment, M.N.I., in which lie suggests the trial of free sulphurous acid as a prophylactic against cliolera, and the administration of sulphites in cases of that disease. Of the latter I have had no experience; but of the former after an extended trial I formed an unfavourable opinion. In March, April, and May 1868, there wa3 a very severe and fatal epidemic of cholera in the Rajshahye district and town of Rampore Beauleah. From 29th March to 13th May there were 57 admissions from cholera into the jail hospitfil, out of a daily average number of 566 prisoners. From 12th April to 4th May, upon eleven different occasions I fumigated the jail, or parts of it, with sulphurous a
experiment.
simple remedy that I should like to see tried extensively than it has been hitherto. I allude to the daily administration of dilute sulphuric acid as a prophylactic against cholera. In one night in April 1873, in the female ward in the Burdwan jail, there were three cases of cholera out of 25 women. The disease had been previously raging in the town and district. iS'oxt. day I had made large jars of sulphuric acid mixture, each half ounce of which contained 15 of the dilute acid. The prisoners daily, morning and evening, were brought up in line, and the native doctor from one end, and compounder from the other, gave to each man his half ounce dose. The prisoners liked it, and fully believed that it would There is one
more
FREE SULPHUROUS ACID AS A PROPHYLACTIC
AGAINST CHOLERA. TO THE 'EDITOR OF THE
"
INDIAN MEDICAL
GAZETTE."
the Indian Medical Gazette, No. 3, March 1st, 1875, I pee a letter from Surgeon-Mnjor C. R. G. Parker, of the 12th Regiment, M.N.I., in which lie suggests the trial of free sulphurous acid as a prophylactic against cliolera, and the administration of sulphites in cases of that disease. Of the latter I have had no experience; but of the former after an extended trial I formed an unfavourable opinion. In March, April, and May 1868, there wa3 a very severe and fatal epidemic of cholera in the Rajshahye district and town of Rampore Beauleah. From 29th March to 13th May there were 57 admissions from cholera into the jail hospitfil, out of a daily average number of 566 prisoners. From 12th April to 4th May, upon eleven different occasions I fumigated the jail, or parts of it, with sulphurous a
