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the cerebro-spinal system wlien depressed or threatened with 

 paralysis, in pleuritis, pneumonia, typhus abdominalis, acute 

 exanthemata, &c. In its pathological anatomy, it intensi- 

 fies the redness of the stomach and small bowels to a purj^le 

 hue (sometimes in the ileum of a dark-red brown); and 

 though the lining membrane of the stomach is easily separa- 

 ble, there is also revealed an intense redness (sometimes per- 

 foration) of the muscular coat (peritoneum and omentum 

 also) with greenish thick fluid ; that in the smaller bowels 

 being ink-colored. Its power to destroy fibrin is so great 

 when exhibited internally (in dogs) that no trace of it can be 

 discovered, even with the aid of the microscope. Unless the 

 Pest in its early stages had more than usual symptoms of 

 typhus degeneration, or was marked with icteric coloration, 

 of the eyes and skin, its exhibition would be without reason 

 or benefit. So too with Phos2)horic Acid, available for 

 zymotic affections, only in scurvy and in choleraic diarrhoea. 



Cuprum Aceticum produces bright red spots near the pylo- 

 rus, bat these are accompanied by black spots of the size of 

 a pin's head. While the mucous membrane of the stomach 

 and bowels is almost entirely destroyed under its action, the 

 epithelium is not destroyed but thickened, with a tendency 

 to gangrene through the entire track of the digestive canal ; 

 the spleen and lungs empty ; the liver and kidneys con- 

 gested ; the lungs crepitating, and dotted with rose-colored 

 spots, ecchymosed too, as also the bowels ; the blood in the 

 smaller veins thin and of a cherry-red, while the large veins 

 and right ventricle are full of thick black blood ; we have in 

 addition to the bright red spots on the stomach above noticed, 

 only a large gall bladder turgid with dark green bile with 

 yellowish tinge, to tally with the abnormal coursings of the 

 Pest. The principal sphere of this remedy is in the irrita- 

 tion of the gatjglionic centers and of the medulla oblongata. 



To pass, however, to other drugs, such as we have shown 

 to be in extended empirical and allopathic use, for instance, 

 the nitrate of lyotaah, better known in common parlance 

 as saltpetre. The redness which it produces in the stomach 

 is not that of simple congestion of the capillaries, but it 



