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effects of which need most patient watching and attention. We 

 are glad to hear that it has been given in cases of anthrax in a 

 man with encouraging results. Of course it would be madness 

 for any unprofessional or unskilled person to prescribe or use 

 dangerous drugs. We contend that a man might quite as well 

 try to navigate a ship over the trackless ocean as to rush im- 

 petuously and blindly (unequipped with special knowledge) into 

 the treatment of disease. 



The healing art is one which at first sight may, perhaps, 

 appear to the ordinary observer, to be not a very diflBcult one. 

 Herein lies great danger. A long course of study and patient 

 research is required to obtain ability to doctor either animals or 

 man with success. The destructive effect of corrosive subli- 

 mate on the bacilli found in the disease called anthrax, on the 

 bacillus septicsemise of guinea-pigs, on the streptococcus of foot- 

 and-mouth disease, and on the bacilli of tuberculosis, has 

 been proved. Those vegetable organisms which do not give rise 

 to diseases in animals seem to be less markedly affected by the 

 poisonous action of this salt than do those which cause disease, 

 such as the bacilli just mentioned. 



The treatment of tuberculosis has as yet been generally 

 unsuccessful, and it is for this reason, and because it is of the 

 highest importance that a remedy should be found, that we are 

 laying some stress on this recent work. It will, no doubt, be 

 soon recognised among medical men that both for human beings 

 and for animals at death's door from anthrax, tuberculosis, or 

 septicaemia, this salt, the perchloride of mercury, in infinitesimal 

 doses, should certainly be considered and in some cases tried. 

 Throughout the world, these facts, as yet by no means generally 

 known, will soon be spread, and we must soon hear more 

 regarding them, probably in confirmation, but yet possibly in 

 refutation. 



Many of our readers are aware that the gaseous substance, 

 " ozone,** is what is called an allotropic modification of the gas 

 " oxygen,"" the difference between the two gases consisting in 

 the fact that there is an alteration in the arrangement of the 

 constituent molecules of which both gases ultimately consist. 

 Oxygen is the most important element contained in the air. 

 On its presence animal life depends, and the purpose of breathing 

 is, on the one hand, the inhaling or drawing in of this gas 



