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of Knightsbridge, highly extols the employment of Acetate 

 of Lead, in doses of 3ij, daily, if required, from which he 

 adds, no fear of harm need be apprehended so long as 

 its conversion into carbonate of lead is guarded against by 

 the use, for its solution, of distilled water, or of common 

 water to which acetic acid has been added. "I have never 

 known,^^ says he, '^ sl case of haemoptysis which has not 

 immediately yielded to it/^^ 



' The ' Veterinarian' for April, 1853, vol. xxvi, p. 193. 



