The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-09-05
Cure for Cholera.

We have great pleasure in announcing
that at last there is some hope Of a specific
being discovered for the cure of A static chol.
era, and that the remedy is now IN course OF
investigation and experiment under the sane.
ton OF Lord Palmerston, as Home Secretary.
The facts that have been brought to our
knowledge in connection with this subject,
are rs follows:- "A short time since a para.
graph appeared in the London papers, detail.
ing ravages OF cholera among the golfers at
i'rimdon, near Hartlepool, Durham. This
paragraph having come under the notice OF
DIR. Coils Brown, Staff Assistant Surgeon
to her Majesty's forces, who has lately been
residing at No. 2, Rodney Terrace, Chalte n
ham, he at once determined to make a per
sonal investigation in the infected district.
DIR. Browne, It appears, while serving on the
medical staf in India, became acquainted
with remedy for cholera, which proved TO
be successful in nearly every case in which
II was applied in that country, and he was
anxious TO ascertain whether the nature of the
disease was the same in this country as in
India, and whether there was a probability
that the same mode Of treatment might be
successfully adopted. Accordingly, on see.
ing the paragraph in question, he at once
inhabitants deserving their homes in the ut.
most terror, between one and two hundred
persons being down with the disease, and
the deaths having reached at that time to be-
tween twenty and thirty daily. In this state of
things he at once proceeded to apply his
Indian remedy. and the result was satisiac-
terry beyond expectation. Within a week of
his arrival he had proved beyond a doubt
that his remedy was potent in England as
1t had been in India; the fatal ravages of the
disease were entirely put stop to, and con-
hdence once more restored among the inhab.
ltants. Having thus seen the disease nearly
eradicated 81 Trmdon, DR.. Browne proposed
to detail the result of his experiment 10 the
authorities in London, but the poor golfers,
on hearing OF his intention To leave them,
held public meeting and presented an ad.
dress to him, signed by nearly 400 of their
numb'r, expressive of their gratitude for the
service he had rendered to their little com.
muni.y, and offered to club together to re.
munerate him if he would olong his stay
amongst them. To this the Dr., replied, that
his object was not remuferation, but to put
stop. if possible. to the ravages Of the dis
ease, and after thanking the humble commu.
nifty for their good wishes, he left them for
London, where sought for, and obtained, IN
interview with the Home Secretary, Lord
Palmerston. While he was closetted with
his lordship, telegraph message was recev.
ed from another place in the neighborhood
Of Trimdon. where the cholera had broken
out with an unusal virulence; and the Doc.
ter was at once directed by Lord Pamerston
to proceed to the place in question, and arm.
ed with his Lordship's authority to again test
this extraordinary Indian remedy, and to re-
port the results from time to time to the
Home-office. Thus the matter rests at pres.
ent-Dr. Browne is pursuing his researches.
assisted in every way by the local Board of
Health, and the last letter received from him
in Che'tenham, gives every reason to hope
that the cholera In this country will no long
er be classed among those diseases which
are beyond the reach of medical treatment.
Cheltenham Examiner.