Folio. Single leaf broadside. Light vertical crease, else fine. With blank space left after 'To' to enable personalisation at beginning.

A rare survival from the 1848 Carlisle cholera outbreak, this single sheet addressed 'in compliance with your requests to know what steps should be taken to prevent, or mitigate the earlier symptoms of Cholera, until you can have medical aid from the town' was presumably intended for distribution, perhaps by post, to sufferers in outlying districts. The author, Henry Lonsdale M.D. (1816-76), was physician to the Cumberland Infirmary, and a political radical, being a friend of Garabaldi, Kossuth and Mazzini. His advice includes a detailed description of symptoms, and the recommendation of several home remedies. Adjacent are four prescriptions presumably, given their technical used of Latin and scientific measurements, intended for the use by pharmacists. These include opium powders, mercury, and laudanum, and, rather curtly, end with 'An Enema Pipe and Bladder'.

No copies in COPAC; OCLC records copies at just two locations (Chicago and Pennsylvania).