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At the expiration of this time all the pain had disappeared, 

 the patient entered his carriage without any difficulty, and 

 has had no recurrence of the trouble since that time. 



Dr. Hamon does not consider this treatment applicable in 

 all cases, but says it is especially indicated where the patient 

 is of full habit, of good constitution, and where such conges- 

 tion as that referred to is indicated by the symptoms. 1 B, 

 June 14, 1874, 173. 



CURE FOR THE BITE OF POISONOUS SERPENTS. 



According to Mericourt, in a communication before the 

 Academy of Medicine, in Paris, the only effective means of 

 counteracting the bite of poisonous serpents, and which 

 should be generally and popularly known, are those which 

 prevent the absorption of the poison immediately after the 

 bite, namely, ligature above the part bitten, suction, lotions, 

 cauterization by means of a white-hot needle, or of a small 

 heap of gunpowder placed on the wound and ignited, or the 

 application of some coagulating caustic. If these means 

 have been neglected, or have been applied tardily and inef- 

 fectually, hot alcoholic drinks should be given gradually and 

 in a methodical manner, so that sweating and the elimination 

 of the fluids by the kidneys may be induced as freely as pos- 

 sible. The action of the new sudorific, " Jaborandi," may be 

 tried. If, in consequence of violent vomiting, the introduc- 

 tion of medicine by the stomach be prevented, and any con- 

 fidence be still retained by the practitioner in the use of am- 

 monia, he may practice its injection, as it is at least harmless. 



POISONING WITH ANILINE RED. 



A well-established case of poisoning from arsenious aniline 

 red, attended with loss of life, is recorded in a late issue of 

 the JVeues Jahrbuch fur P/iarmacie. A whole family was 

 poisoned by eating potatoes that had been cooked in a kettle 

 in which the housekeeper had been dyeing woolen yarn. The 

 kettle had not been cleaned, and the potatoes, boiled in the 

 skin, had acquired an intense red color. Abundant evi- 

 dences of arsenic were found upon subjecting the potatoes to 

 chemical examination. Another instance, which fortunately 

 did not terminate fatally, occurred some months ago in Jer- 

 sey City. On this occasion the cause of the trouble was a 



