The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

CURE OF CHOLERA.-Dr. Bonet, an eminent physician,
of Paris, says :—" In a great number of patients affected
with cholera in the last stage, that is to say, when the
pulsation of the heart and the movement of the pulses are
absent, and in the commencement of the blue stage, T have
succeeded in restoring the action of the heart and in reco-
vering the patient from the blue stage by administerinz,
at intervals of half an hour, four cups of a hot and sweet-
ened infusion of the common lime tree, mint, balm, or
cammomile, &c., in each of which cups of infusion were
four drops of volatile alkali, making sixteen drops, which
the patient may take in two hours. The reaction is almost
instantaneous."

INQUEST ON A CHOLERA VICTIM.—On Thursday, an
inquest was held on the body of a woman, named Eliza
Jackson, residing in Sawney Pope-street, who was found
dead in her lodgings. Mr. Woods. surgeon, who made a
post mortem examination of the body, stated that be found
it in a decomposed state. The countenance represented
appearances of great anguish. On opening the abdomen,
he found the stomach empty, the mucus lining of the ab-
domen was injected. The intestines were loaded with a
fluid resembling rice dissolved in water. There were
patches of livid redness in various parts of the intestines.
The bladder was empty. The liver was congested, and
the gall-bladder contained a considerable quantity of bile.
The lungs were much congosted. The right cavities of
the heart were loaded with thick black blood. In the
room where deceased was found were two chamber uten-
sils ; one contained a large quantity of what appeared to
him, from an ocular examination, bilious feculent matter.
The other contained a greyish matter, similar to that dis-
covered in the intestines. From these general appear-
ances, he was of opinion that deceased had died from
Asiatic cholera.

ARCHMOLOGICAL EXCURSION TO GRESFORD AND
WREXHAM.—On Saturday the Liverpool Architectural
and Archaeological Society made an excursion to the pic-
turesque village of Gresford, accompanied by several of
the members of the Chester Society. On arriving at
Gresford, the party took a leisurely view of its lovely vale,
and then repaired to the church. Mr. Hicklin read an
able and interesting description of the chard, written by
Mr. W. Trevor Parkins for the Oxford Architectural
Society ; after which, our inquiring friends proceeded to
an examination of all the details of the noble building,
making sketches, and exploring its minutest features.
The church is a specimen of the late perpendicular style
of architecture, and its erection is ascribed to Henry
VII. ; but although this theory is doubted, the date of
1498, which was discovered on the stained glass window at
the eastern end of the northern aisle, adds confirmation
to the tradition. There are, however, unmistakeable
indications, from the elegant western window of the south,
aisle, and other portions of the building, that an early deco-
rated church of the date of Edward 11. occupied the site
of the present edifice, which has been a re-building of a
former structure ; and two old monuments of warriors of
the fourteenth century bear testimony to this inference.
The party then paid a visit to what is generally considered
the base of an ancient cross, which stands about half a
mile from the church, at a junction of roads on the
turnpike-road from Chester to Wrexham, under the wide-
spreading branches of a noble sycamore tree. Some of
our archaeologists started the idea that it was not a cross,
but a stoup for holy water, behind which in all probability
a cross had stood. A drawing of this antique stone was
made, as well as an imagintry sketch of its original ap-
pearance, and the dimensions were accurately taken with
a view to further inquiry. The ancient yew tree,
said to be two thousand years old, and the fine yews
of more modern growth planted in 1710, elicited some
remarks, and a drawinc, of the old veteran of the woods
was taken. Gresford having been thus examined, the
party proceeded to Wrexham, where the time only
sufficed for a cursory inspection of its spacious
church. At five o'clock the party, to the number
of forty, assembled at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, in
Wrexham, where an excellent dinner and good wines
were liberally supplied by the respected hostess, Mrs.
Johnson. Mr. Picton, F.A.S., vice-president of the
Liverpool Society, occupied the chair with great urbanity
and talent; and Mr. C. Reed, the secretary, the opposite
end of the table. Mr. Barry and Mr. Kilpin enlivened
the proceedings by some impromptu comic verses, which
they " sung or said," in praise of archaeology ; and the
most kindly feeling of friendship animated the company
till the signal was given for the return home. Among the
party, besides those whose names have already occurred,
we observed Messrs. Boult, Brown, Sharp, Hornblower,
Forrest, and others, from Liverpool.—Chester Courant.