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composed water, combine in its nascent state, with the chlo- 
rine, to form muriatic acid? But then the authors ask, why 
this residuum of hydrogen at the negative, and so eet a 
quantity of oxygen at the positive pole ¢ 
In completing the very detailed enumeration of these ex- 
periments, M. M. Macaire and De La Rive think it right 
again to remark, Ist, that several of them appear to indicate the 
presence of oxygen in the compounds called chlorides. 2d, 
that the experiments which show the presence of oxygen in 
eee as well as those which relate to the action of the 
upon muriatic acid and upon chlorine, seem to be more 
eal explicable on the theory which regards chlorine as a 
mpound body. 3d. = er ‘that -a part of the experi- 
aaa relative to the uction of a gas similar to azote, ob- 
tained by treating the aoe chlorides by a combustible, 
cannot find a ee in any of the theories sishverto 48 advai 
J. J. Lassatiagne—Bul. Un. Feb. 1825. 
ik. Disappearance of the breasts caused by the employ- 
ment of IODINE. —Much has been said of the good effects 
Jodine, in swellings of the miner gland, and against scrofu- 
lous tumours in’ general; but no where has the res acti 
which it exercises on the breasts incl properly no a 
Hufeland reports, among other cases, that of a cir vil twenty 
years of age,- endowed with a good constitution, who ma 
use, during six months, of the tincture of fodine, for the reso- 
It produced the desired eflect : but she 
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Hufeland thinks sufficient to arrest the attention of practition- 
ers upon a subject of so much importance, for if these facts 
are confirmed, ina nrajority of cases, a remedy which de- 
of one of her most io peeeeet organs, ought 
to be rejected. 
The ethan asks, m conclusion, if it is om possible that ep 
i i the sexual organs may 1 
particular action of Iodine upon the saat pe uber tel 
is: hese oe in 
the extraordinary effect of this — upon t 
the normal state, might he efficacious m a Ne ea con- 
dition. 
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