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Ido not recollect to have heard, that the laurel-water is 
liable to lose its strength by keeping, iu this may be con- 
sidered as a dilute prussie acid. 
_ If the above facts be correct, may we not infer from them, 
that a weak preparation of the acid is better to be kept in the 
shops than a stronger? and also for another very im 
consideration, that the danger of too large a dose being a ~ 
ministered, is very much lessened. 
should recommend the trial of the prussic acid in An 
gina Trachealis or Croup, but not to the exclusion of bleed- 
ing, and the other remedies which have had the sanction of 
experience. As the prussic a acid has the » power of vt Set 
ty.0 
the t ty sn Si i 1 * fa ea eg 
> pect, has fans soaks. bans 
tions oa ese ahd festa, that it would counteract the | 
position to a fatal spasm of the glottis, which even a email 
portion of the adventitious membrane formed in croup, is 
liable to excite, if it happen'to be placed near the glottis. 
Analogy, in other cases of internal inflammation of hollow 
Poser leads to the conjecture, that in irritable habits, such 
may occur even from the bare inflammation of t 
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par a still Sr epee for the aepoyment ~ bo 
‘abhi Tam, Sir, ‘wie great respect and esteem, Let r- 
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our obedient servant, | 
‘B. L. OLIVER. 
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