Effects of the Prussie Acid. 195 
tn the first stage of catarrhal, or tuberculous phthisis, I 
am induced to believe, from plapieitatianie made on five ca- 
ses, that it will alleviate most of the urgent symptoms.— 
Whether it will cure patients actually laboring under con- 
sumption, in any stage of the disease, is, perhaps, as yet 
undecided. But by the controul which it appears to pos- 
yess over the morbid irritation of the membranes, there is 
‘little doubt but it will, at least for a time, retard the progress 
of the disease, and prevent the approach of ulceration. 
This position seems, indeed, to have been proved in a 
considerable number of instances 
In cases where the are slieoily ulcerated, with the 
concomitants of the third stage of consumption, there is no 
reason to believe it does any permanent good. - L have 
known one instance, however, of this kind, where it seemed 
to operate as a palliative, ae — the costiveness, and 
lessening the disposition to 
‘One word ee tie ath of giving the prussie acid, 
and I have don 
As this satiheod is given only by drops, I have gre" it 
most convenient to measure out a certain number of fluid 
drachms of the vehicle, as of syrup of Tolu or of sugar 
and water, into which is then dropped, one or two drops of 
Pp acid to each drachm. Phe dose is then-a ‘measured 
Quantity of the. julep. 
I have known several instances where the medicine lost 
se wae _ _— a to the light, by taking out the 
a day from a vial of unmixed prussic 
seid, for vnaie eee of asteene out each dose, or Pfrorh 
leaving the cork loose. ‘ 
y. By Dr. A. 8. Moxsor, o misitigeasi iy 
~The pe kis heen oo chronic ¢ atar 
ye: ea after much | is -exel 
terly to slight cough, expectoration, and pi 
