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tea-spoonful every hour, and with the same effect ; the patient de- 
claring that she never. found such immediate and entire relief from 
any of the numerous medicines she had previously taken for this 
complaint. She complained of dizziness, nausea, avd some debility, 
after taking the second spoonful ; and told me she suspected the me- 
dicine administered was tobacco. “Not having since had any attack 
of the disease, I have had no opportunity of giving the medicine a 
further trial with a view to radical relief. I prescribed it also in 
a case of asthmatic cough at the naval ‘hospital of | this place ; 
and with much relief to the patient. Dr. Samuel Stewart of this city, 
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administered it in the same form to the deceased, and he was killed by it, the court 
would have left it to the serious consideration of the jury, whether they would presume 
that the prisoner administered it from an honest intention to cure,or from obstinate rash- 
ness, and fool-hardy presun ion, although he might not have intended any bodily harm 
to his patient. If the j jury “should: have been of this latter opinion, it-would have been 
‘reasonable to convict the prisoner of manslaughter at least. For it would not have been 
lawful for him again to administer a medicine, of which he had such fatal experience. 
4 It is to be exceedingly lamented, that. ‘people are so easily persuaded to put con- 
fidence i in these itinerant quacks, and to trust their lives to strangers without knowledge 
or experience. If this astonishing infatuation should continue, and men are found to 
yield to the impudent pretensions of ignorant empiricism, there seems to be no adequate 
remedy by a criminal | prosecution, without the interference of the legislature, if the 
quack, however iak and presumptuous, should prescribe, with honest intentions and 
expectations of relieving his patients.— The prisoner was acquitted.” 
Tyng’s Reports, vol. 6, p. 134. 
