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ting. He removed the bandage from the arm; he then introduced. 
the pipe of a syringe, and threw a drachm and a half of the solu- 
tion into the vein, taking care to exclude every portion of air, 
though the experiments of Nysten had shewn that a few air bub- 
bles would occasion no mischief. The breathing was immediately 
affected, becoming more regular, less rapid, and less convulsive. The 
pulse and other symptoms remained as before. The successive in- 
jections were repeated at intervals of five minutes. At the second, 
the breathing became quite natural; the pulse rose to 100, and 
was fuller. The skin became slightly coloured, and was soon 
covered with a faint perspiration. The spasms lost their violence; 
she heaved one or two sighs, like a person coming out of a pro- 
found sleep. After the fourth injection she recovered her hearing, 
but not her sense of sight. At the fifth, she began to see, and 
articulated some phrases distinctly. The operation was not fol- 
lowed with any disagreeble symptoms. On the following day, the 
girl described her sensations with much clearness. At every in- 
jection, it appearedvas if a torrent of fire had been poured into her 
veins, which rising up her arm, and following the course of the 
vessels, which she pointed out very exactly, passed under the 
clavical of the same side, and concentrated its operation for some 
instants on the chest, whence it proceeded to the head and along 
the back, from which it diffused itself through the whole system, 
and produced lively prickings and an intense heat in the skin. 
She spoke of her sensations as having been very painful. After 
six weeks of convalescence, she relapsed into a similar state of 
disease to that for which the injections were used. She finally re- 
covered from the convulsive affections by sea bathing; but was 
afterwards seized with swelling of the mesenteric glands. 
Dr. Coindet says, we must not expect from opium injections any 
thing more than the temporary cessation of the spasms, whereby 
the stomach may be brought back to its natural functions, which 
interval must be taken advantage of, for administering the suita- 
ble remedies, by the customary passages.— Bibliotheque Univer- 
selle, May 1823. 
Economics.—M. Viney one of the editors of the Journal de 
Pharmacie, has given, in the number for February last, the fol- 
lowing recipe for making a fetid and bitter solution, capable of 
destroying all kinds of insects: — 
Take of wood mushrooms, or large brown fetid boletuses 6 pounds 
Black soap ‘ : : 
Grated nux yomica_ . 2 ounces 
Water. : . + 200 pounds 
The mushrooms bruised and beginning to putrefy, are to be put 
into the water holding the soap in solution. The mixture is to 
be left to putrefy in a cask for some days, care being taken to agi- 
