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Mean Sp. Gr. 



0.80944 6 



0.81388 9 



0.82-223 6 



0.84331 7 



0.87335 5 



0.89372 8 



0.90845 5 



0.91959 7 



0.92832 1 



0.93534 8 



0.94110 2 



0.94592 4 



0.85001 5 

 In the continuation of the paper, Article III., for April, page 257, 

 the seventh and eighth lines require the following correction in the 

 pointing : — " for each degree the spirit under trial is above or be- 

 low 60°." 



I am, sir, yours, &c, 



London, 3rd Feb., 1836. Observer. 



IX. — Cases of Poisoning. 



1. By Acetate of 3fo?-phin. — Some authors have asserted that 

 this salt is not poisonous. The following communication from Pont 

 Mousson, Meurthe, exposes this fallacy: — M. R., judge of the civil 

 tribunal at Sedan, came to an inn of this town. He had arrived 

 from Metz, where he had lost a trifling cause, and was on his way to 

 Plombieres, to drink the waters. After having supped, he went to 

 bed. Next morning he asked for a cup of tea, which was given him. 

 Some time afterwards he came down stairs, and ordered a physician 

 to be called. The unfortunate man had mixed a quantity of acetate 

 of morphin with the tea, and had imagined that its effects would have 

 been instantaneous. Disappointed, he now thought that instead of 

 death he would be subjected to agonizing suffering, and requested 

 Dr. Remelot to administer an antidote. Unfortunately, all efforts 

 were fruitless. M. R. died in the course of the day. 



2. Agaricus Myomiea (lamellis luteis). — A woman, aged sixty 

 years, after eating three agarici of this kind, which had been dressed 

 with salt and oil, was seized in half-an-hour with nausea and vo- 

 miting of colourless mucous and filamentary matter. In a quarter 

 of an hour the lower extremities became so weak, as to be unable to 

 support the weight of the body. She lay down, and after taking 

 some cinder-ley, and three or four ounces of oil, Dr. Ghiglini was 

 called in. He administered seven or eight ouncess of olive-oil, a 

 clyster with the infusion of chamomile flowers, and a draught, con- 

 sisting of two ounces of fennel- water, twenty-four grains of Hoff- 

 man's liquor, and twenty drops of laudanum. Vomiting recurred. 

 The upper and lower extremities were very cold ; pulse and respi- 

 ration almost insensible; convulsions of the jaws; moaning; vio- 

 lent headache, and pain in the lumbar regions. The same potion 



