Note 5 — Chapter III · POPULAR ERRORS.
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The popular disposition to look to some one remedy for a disease, is seen in the conversations in every circle at the present time, in regard to the cholera. The inquiry is for some one specific remedy,—and physicians are constantly asked if something has not yet been discovered of this character. Though the newspapers are filled with new and certain cures, no new remedy has been discovered for this disease since its former visitation in this country. Physicians do however know better how to treat it, than they did then; but it is only because experience has taught them better how to use the appropriate remedies, and not because any very important new medicines are added to the list of those which are applicable to this disease.