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deleterious. Pure arsenic, or the regulus, is therefore 
never medically employed, = 
_In the East Indies, arsenic is used by the native physi- 
cians, to cure what they call Persian fire (confirmed lues;) 
and a species of elephantiasis, called by them judham, and 
also to cure the bite of the cobra de or hooded 
miei They unite it with six parts of b. pepper, into 
pills. : 
Arsenic is a medicine of great efficacy and power, and 
is extensively employed by practitioners all over the 
world. Itis tonic and febrifuge ; has been long used in 
dropsy, syphilis, intermittent and remittent fever, period- — 
its origin to an arthritic diathesis. 
that arsenic will be found a medicine well suited to certain 
cases of this head-ache.” Lecture on Arsenic = C 
man says,* **I have long known its utility in removing the 
series of affections, as nodes, cutaneous blotches, Br 
of the throat, rheumatic pains, which, though usually 
ascribed to a venereal taint, are nearly always of mercurial 
origin.” And in a note : ** My use of the medicine in these 
cases, for the credit of having prescribed it originally, I 
believe due to myself, has been more extensive since the 
first edition of this work, and in part with a confirmation 
of its utility.” : 
Now, I deny Dr. Chapman this “credit of having pre- 
* Therapeutics, Vol. Il. p. 478. 
