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Jlntidotes for Poisons. 



Vol. IV. 



blood instead of the single one which was 

 seen before. The seventh day the brain be- 

 gins to have some consistency. At tlie hun- 

 dred and nineteenth hour of incubation, the 

 bill opens, and the flesh appears in the breast ; 

 in four hours more the breast bone is seen ; 

 in six hours after this, the ribs appear form- 

 ing from the back, and the bill is very visi- 

 ble, as is the gall bladder. The bill becomes 

 green at the end of two hundred and thirty- 

 six hours; and if the chicken be taken out of 

 its coverings, it evidently moves itself. The 

 feathers begin to shoot out toward the two 

 hundred and fortieth hour, and the skull be- 

 comes gristly. At the two hundred and sixty- 

 fourth hour the eyes appear. At tlie two 

 hundred and eighty-eighth, the ribs are per- 

 fect. At the three hundred and thirty-first, 

 the spleen draws near the stomach, and the 

 lungs to the cliest. At the end of three 

 hundred and fifty-five hours, the bill frequent- 

 ly opens and shuts; and at the end of the 

 eighteenth day, the first cry of the chicken is 

 heard. It afterward gets more strength, and 

 grows continually, till at length it is enabled 

 to set itself free from its confinement. 



In the whole of this process, we must re- 

 mark that every part appears at its proper 

 time ; if, for example, the liver is formed on 

 the fifth day, it is founded on the preceding 

 situation of the chicken, and on the changes 

 that were to follow. No part of the body 

 could possibly appear either sooner or later, 

 without the whole embryo suffering ; and 

 each of the limbs becomes visible at the fit 

 inoment. This ordination, so wise and so in- 

 variable, is manifestly the work of a Supreme 

 Being: but we must stdl more sensibly ac- 

 knowledge his creative powers, when we con- 

 sider the manner in which the cliicken is 

 formed out of the parts which compose the 

 egg. How astonishing it must appear to an 

 observing mind, that in this substance there 

 should at all be the vital principle of an ani- 

 mated being ! that all the parts of an animal's 

 body should be concealed in it, and require 

 nothing but heat to untold and quicken them ! 

 that the whole forination of the cliicken should 

 be so constant and regular! that, exactly at 

 the same time, the same changes will take 

 place in the generality of egys! that the 

 cliicken, the moment it is hatched, is heavier 

 than the ^gg was before ! But even these 

 are not all the wonders in the formation of 

 the bird from the egg, (for this instance will 

 serve to illustrate the whole of the feathered 

 tribes:) there are others, altogether hidden 

 from our observation ; and of which, from our 

 very limited faculties, we must ever remain 

 ignorant. — Provincial Journal. 



Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy. 

 Never buy what you do not want. 



From the Hampshire Gazette. 

 Autidotes for Poisoiis« 



The following communication from Dr. 

 Hall will be read with interest at this time. 

 Every family should keep the antidotes named 

 by Dr. Hall, laid up where they can be in- 

 stantly obtained, in any case of emergency. 

 When an active poison is taken, the only 

 safety of the sufferer is in the immediate ai> 

 plication of an antidote. A short delay is 

 fatal. 



" Every bitter hath its sweet, every poison its anti- 

 dote." 



The repeated cases of poisoning which 

 have recently occurred in this village, have 

 induced me to make public some of the 

 most efficient antidotes for poisons, especially 

 for those which are found in the domestic de- 

 partment of almost every familyl I am in- 

 duced to make these "antidotes to poisons" 

 public, because in instances of poisoning, from 

 accident or otherwise, the urgency of the 

 case does not allow us to wait for medical as- 

 sistance, which is scarcely ever obtained 

 without some delay, and consequently of com- 

 paratively little or no avail when it is, and 

 the life of an individual is often lost by wait- 

 ing, when by prompt interference it might 

 have been saved. 



I have confined myself to mentioning those 

 antidotes which are the most simple and the 

 most easily obtained ; and it is worthy of no- 

 tice, that those are the very articles that are 

 most effectual. The practice of forcing down 

 large doses of powerfiil and irritating emetics, 

 which in themselves are almost sulHcient to 

 destroy life, cannot be too strongly repre- 

 hended. When emetics are necessary, as 

 they sometimes are, especially in tliose cases 

 of poisoning by substances which produce 

 great torpor of the system, (such as opium 

 and all the narcotics,) the safety of the pa- 

 tient requires that the dormant energies of the 

 stomach be aroused. In these cases, nothing 

 is better to be given than ground black mus- 

 tard, a large tea-spoonful of which may be 

 mixed with water and swallowed at once. 

 It operates very promptly — it is perfectly safe, 

 and nothing can be more elfectual. 



As a general rule, the effects of poisons 

 are better counteracted by articles, which, 

 being taken into the stomach immediately 

 after the poison is swallowed, enter into com- 

 bination with the poison, and form with it a 

 new substance, either harmless in itself, or 

 incajjable of being acted on by the fluids of 

 the stomach. 



For Oil of Vitriol, the best antidote is 

 large doses of Magnesia and water, or what 

 is still hotter, equal parts of soft soap and 

 water. 



lAir Aqua Fortis, same remedy as the last. 



For Oxalic Acid — (This resembles Epsom 



