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name being marked in plain English characters. The re- 

 mains of unknown compound medicines, when partially 

 used, should be thrown away. Laudanum must be given 

 in a bright state ; for when thick, the dose is doubled or 

 trebled from the solid opium suspended in the liquid, 

 and the deaths of children have been caused by the use 

 of such turbid laudanum. 



Bites of Snakes^ additional, see page 231. — While this 

 sheet was at press, I met with another record of the effi- 

 cacy of the liquor of ammonia, (spirit of hartshorn) in the 

 case of a child, apparently near dying, by Mr. Burchell, 

 while travelling in South Africa. Ten drops were given 

 in water, every five minutes until relieved. The medi- 

 cine was also applied to the wound after being scarified, 

 with his penknife.* In the year 1822, the uniform suc- 

 cess of the external and internal use of the same remedy, 

 during eighteen years, was stated in the newspapers, on 

 the authority of Dr. Joseph Moore, of Gibson Port, Mis- 

 sissippi. I ought to have mentioned before, that I was 

 informed when in Georgia, several years since, of the 

 cure by it of a negro, who had been bitten by a rattle- 

 snake. 



' Travels in Southern Africa, vol. 1, p. 599., London, 1822. 



