I thick the prophylaxis of cholera may be summed up in three cardinal points; cleanliness, temperance, and a thorough cooking of everything that is taken into the stomach. The more recently it is cooked before being taken into the stomach the better. The prophylactic remedy acts in curing the sick, in this, that its action is to bring the individual health up to par as soon as possible.
In agreed to the remedies prescribed or described here by our foreign friend, the indications are remarkably well given. As far as experience goes, I have had none with cholera, but the indications given are remarkably applicable.
J.H. HENRY, M.D.: I am very much pleased with the paper of our friend from India, who represents the treatment of cholera by Homoeopathy. In 1849, when the cholera visited the United States, I was a student of medicine in New York city, and had charge of a Catholic lying-in hospital in that city. People died not only by scores but by hundreds. I was affected by the disease, but was cured by Arsenicum and Veratrum. A most remarkable thing occurred at that time. We were one night seated on a balcony discoursing about the question of cholera and its remedies. The ladies of the hospital were present. We had everything neat and clean; we had no sings of anything that would develop into cholera in the institution. Of these who were sitting on that balcony that night, every one was buried the next morning except myself.
What effect has Hydrocyanic acid upon cholera? In a practice of over forty years I have seen no effect produced by Veratrum, Cuprum, or Carb. vegetabilis upon cholera in its collapsed state. And now what are remedies when we have this extreme collapse of the whole nervous system? Our only remedy is Aconite, and for that remedy we are indebted to Dr. Hempel. Whenever you have those violent types, you must rely upon Aconite in appreciable doses. The paper is instructive. I am very glad that it has been read.
