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mour, remains swelled, and feels to the touch like an empty 

 cyst. Frequently also the goitre disappears only partially, 

 but to an extent sufficient to be neither inconvenient nor a de- 

 formity. In many cases it is dissolved, destroyed, and dissi- 

 pated in from six to ten weeks, so as to leave no traces of its 

 previous existence. 



That the effect of the remedy might be obtained free from 

 any other effect, all local applications were avoided, which 

 either by compression, or from the saline substances they con- 

 tained, could produce any interfering result. 



2. Antidote for Vegetable Poisons, — M. Drapiez has ascer- 

 tained, by numerous experiments, that the fruit of the feuillea 

 cordifolia is a powerful antidote against vegetable poisons. 

 This opinion has long been entertained by naturalists, but it has 

 not before been verified by experiments made in any part of 

 Europe. M. Drapiez poisoned dogs with the rhus toxico- 

 dendron, hemlock and nux vomica ; all those that were left 

 to the effects of the poison died, but those to whom the frjuit 

 of the feuillea cordifolia was administered recovered com- 

 pletely, after a short illness. To see whether this antidotp 

 would act in the same way applied externally to wounds, into 

 which vegetable poisons had been introduced, he took two ar- 

 rows, which had been dipped in the juice of manchenijle, and 

 slightly wounded with them two young cats ; to one of these he 

 applied a poultice, composed of the fruit of the feuillea cordi- 

 folia, while the other was left without any application. The 

 former suffered no inconvenience except from the wound, which 

 speedily healed ; while the other, in a short time, fell into con- 

 vulsions, and died. 



It would appear from these experiments, that the opinioi^ en-r 

 t^rtained of th^ virtues of this fruit, in the countries where i^ 

 is produced, is well founded. It would deserve in consequence 

 to be introduced into our Fharmacopceias as an important me- 

 dicipe ; but it is necessary to know, that it loses its virtues if 

 kept longer than two years after it is gathered. — Medical 

 Journal. 



