ACL-ACI  * 
locity with which it acts, probably destroys nervous 
energy. It has the property of extingwshmg general _ 
sensibility, without injuring respiration and circula- 
tion. Animals have been found to breathe and suffer 
no impediment in circulation, for some hours after 
muscular irritability has been extinguished. 
Mepicat Prorsrtizs anp Uszs. . Referable to sedative 
narcotics. Efficacious in tracheal phthisis, according 
to Mr. A. Todd Thompson : has been commended by 
Granville, in tubercular phthisis—by Brera, in pulmo- 
nary inflammation—by Magendie, in all cases of aug- 
mented irritability of the pulmonary organs, as nerv- 
ous chronic coughs, asthma, whooping cough—by 
Thompson and Elliotson, in dyspepsia; the former 
recommending it to be combined with tonics, in this 
and soreness of the tongue: he says, that in these 
cases, ‘fit reduces the morbid irritability of the sto- 
mach, and thereby enables the juices of that organ 
to be more slowly secreted, and of a more healthy — 
character.” Thompson appears to have been the first _ 
who used it in gastric affections. It has proved ser- 
viceable in uterine hemorrhages, dysmenorrhea, and 
hemoptisis. In England, it has been used in cases of 
hectic cough—in Italy, to calm the irritability of the 
yterus, even in cases of cancer, and to moderate and 
regulate the inordinate action of the heart in sthenic 
diseases. It has been used in chronic rheumatism and 
acid, to employ some vegetable in which. acid 
naturally resides, by an association of physici sur- 
geons, and naturalists of Florence—as the essential 0 
of Prunus Lauro Cerasus. They recommend olive 
oil as the best vehicle, in the proportion of twelve — 
_ drops of the essential oil to one ounce of the oil. 
Others prefer laurel water, (which see.) 
Formule— 
No. 1,—Mistura Acidi Hydrocyanici. Mixture of Prussic 
_ Acid—Magendie’s Pectoral. 
Medicinal Prussic Acid, gr. 59.07 troy 
Distilled water ibl 
Pure sugar eee 
Mixed, and to be car gion oe ee 
Dose, a desert-spoonful morning and eyening—may 
be increased to 6 or 8 spoonfuls in 24 hours, : ; 
