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LITEIL\RY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



46. Dr. B. Bjornlund has published at Abo, in Swe- 

 den, a small octavo volume, consisting of about 180 pa- 

 ges, entitled, Materia Medica Selecta. The articles, of 

 which the author has given an account, are arranged al- 

 phabetically. As a specimen of the author's manner of 

 treating his subject, we shall select the M'hole of the ar- 

 ticle Arsenic, p. 23. 



" ARSENICUM album. 



" Virtus: maxime corrosiva, toxica. 



" Usus : Cancer occultus & apertus, Febris inter- 

 jnittens. 



* ' Ob s. In cancro tam occulto quam aperto, Lefebure 

 pro usu interno, commendat solutionem hujus, ad qua- 

 tuor grana, factam in triginta duabus unciis aquae des- 

 tillatas, unde cochlear, cum pari quantitate lactis, per 

 diem ingeritur sensim ascendendo ad 6 cochlearia, par- 

 titis vicibus, de die. Hanc solutionem paullo fortiorem 

 redditam, & cum tertia parte vini rubri remixtam, ex- 

 feme, pro lavacro in cancro aperte preecipit. Vcrum, 

 cum noxam deleteriam, usus ejusmodi internus, licet 

 circumspectus, facile adferre queat, satius est ab hoc 

 abstinere, admisso solum usu externo in ulceribus faciei 

 cancrosis, in quibus, secundum experientiam Illustr. 



