MEADOW SAKFUON. ''OS 



that which results from the mixture of two juices 

 previous to fermentation. In the former case, 

 the mixed liquor will partake of the properties of 

 each; but in the latter a distinct variety will be 

 formed, in which neither can be recognised. The 

 specific gravity of the juices is also changed, 

 which proves that a chemical action has taken 



place. 



We would particularly recommend young me- 

 dical students to make themselves acquainted 

 with the nature of these chemical changes as it 

 regards the properties of vegetables ; for, as the 

 most powerful medicine becomes modified by 

 being combined with other articles, whose action 

 upon the body is different, the result of certam 

 combinations cannot be even conjectured without 

 previous experience. Every medical practitioner 

 knows that the combination of opium and ipe- 

 cacuanha produces a result widely different from 

 either the narcotic properties of the one, or the 

 emetic qualities of the other; and we therefore 

 trust that they will not let the fashionable rage 

 for simplicity in medicine prevent their studymg 

 a preparation of Colchicum, that may be relied 

 on for a more certain uniformity of action than 

 any that has hitherto been discovered, and that 

 may at the same time be more free from the dis- 



