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would seem of their destruction, as the blood is. poured out 

 upon the organ and then vomited up. Its homoeopathi- 

 city lies in cerebral congestion, spinal irritation, and the like, 

 and though besides what we have noticed, it produces sensi- 

 tiveness of the pulse, causing it to flutter, it has no other cor- 

 respondence with the symptoms of the Pest, unless such may 

 be'found in a dropsical oedema of the body. 



Of the chlorate of potash we have but few provings ; and 

 these find no illustration from observed phenomena super- 

 vening from its use in poisonous doses. 



In like manner we may dismiss Terebinthince oleum (tur- 

 pentine), whose symptomatic action in this distemper has 

 been given by Dr. Pope ; Sulphur, whose x>otency in chronic 

 ailments is brought out by the higher attenuations ; Iron, 

 valuable as an auxiliary to the blood in debilitated or cachectic 

 constitutions ; and the host of drugs, such as ginger, gentian, 

 tormentilla, which in large doses may serve as temporary 

 stimulants in many affections, but are without specific efii- 

 cacy in this. 



Quinine produces in animals an enlargement of the solitary 

 glands in the upper portion of the intestinal canal, which is 

 very dry. The glands are somewhat inflamed. Some por- 

 tions of the canal are slightly reddened, the muscular as well 

 as the mucous coat of the smaller bowels is softened, and 

 can be scraped off down to the peritoneum ; that of the large 

 bowels is similarly affected, but in a less degree. Its dis- 

 turbing power in the human subject, when given in large 

 doses, results in congestion of the brain and cord, red and 

 white softening of the medullary substance and serous effu- 

 sion ; the softening and dissolution of the spleen, and blood 

 congestion of the liver. It would be of principal value after 

 the force of the disease is expended, in the palliation of the 

 symptoms of marked exhaustion. 



Rhus toxicodendron, R. radicans and R, vernix, valuable 

 in paralytic affections of the extremities, in skin desquama- 

 tions or haemorrhages, and in zymotics of the typhus type 

 are without massive provings revealing their power over the 

 mucous surfaces. Analogy alone can guide to their prescrip- 



