THE CURE OF CHOLERA.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—A cablegram appears in your of this morning, to the effect that "An. English remedy for cholera, consisting of periodate in crystals," (periodate of what ?) "cured 95 per cent, of the cases in the Seamen's Hospital at Hamburg." It is a pity that the Press Association does not select someone in London possessed of a little common sense, to select the news for transmission by cable. Cases of cholera which have advanced beyond a certain stage can no more be cured by medicine than a man who has had twothirds of his skin burned off him can be cured. The epithelium of the mucous membrane of the intestines is almost entirely j destroyed, and no medicine will cure that. Uuner the best treatmentand all kinds of treatment have been tried—about half the cholera cases which have reached the stage of collapse, die. . Medicine is not absorbed, and mostly does more harm than good. I attribute my own recovery from collapse at Balaklava to having refused all medicine. — am, etc., R. H. Bakewell, M.D. Wakefield-street, October 29.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9023, 31 October 1892, Page 3
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