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counter-irritation, heat, and passive hyperaemia. 

 Moreover, a recognition of the failure of drugs saves 

 useless expense, and may banish from patients' 

 houses some of the commonest of powerful poisons. 

 Belladonna liniment, for instance, has been respon- 

 sible for an immense number of alarms, illnesses, 

 and even fatalities. 



REFERENCE. 



A. Rendle Short and Walter Salisbury, British Medical 

 Journal, 1910, i, p. 560. 



