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aa ble. The best way to give it is in small doses, regularly, 
in, -imbik d with the breath, has occasioned a violent salivation. 
Success in low stages of putrid and malignant fevers. The internal 
use of it, however is liable to many objections which must ever pre- 
yent its general adoption. seueteige 2 
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Musk. From the Musk Deer. - 
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_ The substance contained in a follicle situated near the navel. 
The musk animal is an inhabitant of China, India and ‘Tartary. 
It is ntle and timid animal, and in géeneral form resembles the 
deer tribe. In the male, behind the navel, and before | prepuce, 
~ In the adult animal this sac is filled with a secreted matter, known 
by the name of musk. | 
'. Fine musk comes to us in thin round bladders, which are gene-. 
it sometimes succeeds in the m desperate circumstances. It _ 
raises the pulse without heating much; it aliays spasms, and ope- 
s remarkably on the brain, imereasing the powers of thought, _ 
sensation and voluntary motion. It is administered with advantage 
in the greater number of spasmodic diseases, especially in hysteria 
