iss Effects of the Prussic. 
A great variety ha medicines bad been used without any 
sensible benefit. ta year since, she commenced the 
use of the nytrepasie acid, in doses of two drops, every 
four hours, diluted in water. Ina few days the os be- 
gan to abate, and in a week or two she was entirely free 
from the complaint. Since which time, her health has 
been almost uninterruptedly good. She finds, however; 
that a aa catarrh will produce a return of cough, but this 
has, u >, abated with the other catarrhal symptoms 5 5—if 
rOps: have, always, produced a cure. 
Anothe tity. t in whom symptoms of tubercular phthi- 
; were ‘well marked, experienced much benefit from the 
use of the acid in doses of two drops every four hours ; the 
cough became less tedious, the hectic abated, and the 
diminished from ninety to seventy-five per minute, in poe 
ty-four hours from the commencement of the use 
acid; but the beset —_— giddy to such aileeee® as to 
render it neces: diminish the ior ten days The se 
ed, ap] sea gaining 
se of the symptoms—an ( 
in abated the sy mi protege or or ten mis he 
: the violence of the symptoms returned, but cou 
not be celleyed by the acid, nor by any other ere 
ed. 
I have used the acid in Mia other cases, vith vv 
degrees of success. From all of which, and from what has 
bees eS gs hed, I have no doubt that the bed tee acid 
one of the m Ah valuable sedatives we possess. To digit. 
pe it: 3 to on account of its te : 
tremors, and that disagr eeable. depression” aoe are 
sometimes known to follow the use of. that doubtful 
The disagreeable effects from the use poem the: mers fer 
abate on a subduction uP the ho we ‘but the a 
effects from ae of digital il known to 
