CHOLERA TREATMENT. To the Editor of the

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Indian Medical Gazette."

any "of your readers, inform me whether, in Slit,?Can you, " in cholera, electricity as a means of the stage of collapse stimulation has ever received a fair trial, and with what resultMost medical men who have had many cholera cases to treat must have been disappointed with all the ordinary methods of stimulation in cases where the collapse was well marked, and at the same time must have noticed that early and progressive failure of the heart's action was the symptom of gravest import, the amount of vomiting, purging, cramp, &c., being of very secondary signification. When an attempt at reaction takes place, then judicious treatment gets fair play, but in a large number of cases there is no sign of reacticn, and every effort to rouse the nervous system from the effects of the shock it has sustained is unavailI am, Sir, yours, &c., ing. E. McVittjk, F.R.C.S., or

Mominabad, Deccan,

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July 1884.

Surgeon-Major,

[Dr. E. Williams reports in I.ancet, p. 195, Vol. ii. 1861 that lie found galvanism to the spine for 5 or 10 minutes exceedingly valuable in cholera "Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricollapse. Beard an

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