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accomplislied that for which it was ordered, and 

 without any contre-temps. 



The following interesting case is recorded by 

 Dr. Graves, in the Dublin Journal : — *' I recently 

 met in the streets a gentleman of my acquaintance, 

 looking very unhappy, and upon asking the cause 

 of his misery was told that he was suffering 

 severely from pains in his gums and teeth, for 

 which he had already submitted to the extraction 

 of two sound teeth — a bicuspid and a molar — - 

 upon the recommendation of his regular medical 

 attendant, a man of great skill and a dentist of 

 eminence ; and that though the operation was at 

 first attended with some relief, a few days after 

 his sufferings became as agonizing as ever ; and 

 now, as the neighbouring teeth had become loose, 

 he was told that they too must be extracted. 

 Under these circumstances he had had recourse to 

 a celebrated homoeopathic doctor, whose treatment 

 had completely failed. Remembering that he had 

 consulted me the previous year for a periostitic 

 affection of the sternum and ribs, and that the 

 hydriodate of potash was the medicine which, 

 served him best, I recommended him to take ten 

 grains fer in die. I had the satisfaction of per- 

 ceiving a daily improvement, so that pain and in- 

 flammation soon ceased, and in about ten days the 

 teeth were all fastened. The periostitis," adds 

 the doctor, *Ho which this gentleman was liable 

 was of a rheumatic character, otherwise his con- 



