84 Medical Chemistry. 
the respiration became more easy——the cough less wearing 
—the pain in the side gradually ceased, and in a few days, 
by this mild and simple treatment, the patient became quite 
well. 
Dr. Manzoni, in the same thesis, assures us that the pro- 
fessor derived the most signal advantage from the use of the 
prussic acid in bronchial inflammation ; in catarrhs, and in 
isis. man, thirty-four years old, rapidly ve 
towards the tuberculous state of phthisis, by taking the prus- 
sic acid, in emulsion of gum arabic, had his sreewies ex- 
pectoration both ameliorated one diminished, and his life, 
(before very mesionotsi prolong 
Two women with chronic pan attended by pores 
and purulent expectoration, in a short time, by the 
the prussic acid, found the matter changed into sim le mu- 
cus and left the clinical institution almost in perfect health. 
In ie Brera’s private practice many similar cases 
occurred. ong 0 Otay the fo ane mamposable i instance 
copious | 
moptysie a fs OO segs caciadathhs ee 
bloodletting had been resorted to in vain, when i. Brera 
prescribed under the et of pills, one —e drops of the 
prussic acid, to be taken in the course of the night ; this, as 
he expresses it, a 8 arrested. ~ bleeding. The 
use of the prussic acid, in doses of from thirty to fifty drops, 
in twenty-four hours, continued. for five. days, fact this 
lady to perfect health without leaving the slightest trace of a 
pulmonary affection.* 
Dr. Brera, by the use of prussic acid, with the leaves of 
the atropa belladona, succeeded in curing perfectly a schir- 
rous affection of the womb, complicated witha syphilitic 
affection. 
another case, a noble lady at. Padua, aged twenty-sev- 
en years, of an irritable temperament, placed herself unde 
the care of Dr. Brera. She had a chronic uterine affection, 
Dr. Magendie very just 
in pills, because, from its excessive voli especially at an neevated Sine 
ace re, muc a pe _ lost; this is the reason why this = 
