we 
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monly employed in medicine, would not be prepared, on 
reading this paragraph, to expect worse consequences than 
what actually ensued. 
But what vouilte should we not anticipate from the unpre- 
cedented dose of eight paps to a child, only seven or As od 
years old! 
It seems that the dose at the medicine was so great 
the first case as to produce loss of sense and of motion; the 
same symptoms precisely which result from. too great a 
dose of opium 
The unwillingness of the writer, at first, to refer these 
symptoms to their true cause, argues his erence | in the 
 Pherastdne thse inckecenlenees administering. = 
The second case above referred to, is one. of a lad e 7 h 
after taking a second dose of five , experienced a 
strange disturbance in the head, and symptoms of deb 
In this case “ the patient had no suspicion she was meee 
_a medicine possessed of any peculiar violence.” Without 
- adverting to the necessity of cautioning the patient of the 
power of any medicine, in order to ensure accuracy in the 
ose, we cannot help animadverting upon the impropriety 
of ob aes bold a3 cep oon in the case of a remedy of almost 
RS the erac enerey rr fehelne upon the ‘system, 
resulting from naa Mieask continued for ‘ome time, a. 
on which all its medical efficacy depends, 
‘Who can, with impunity, prescribes in nites doses opi, 
digitalis, corrosive sublimate, or r arsenic, or any of the more 
E t violent and dan- 
serous symptoms might we not reasonably expect, ree we 
to prescribe for a dose, thirty-two dr | ve 
gt 
o 
rains of corrosive sul 
btain the salutary effect 
Jministered in s 
