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No. V1.—Wuriate of Strychnia and Nicotine (simultaneous). 
SMALL CURLY BLACK DOG. 
Minutes. 
1. Gave 1 gr. muriate of strychnia, 1°5 gr. nicotine, in 
gelatine capsule, im butter, 2 . .': . . 5 « 0 
2. Vomited dose, . . Plame 10) 
Recovered, and did not seem injured. 
No. VII.—Strychnia only. 
SKYE TERRIER, 
Minutes. 
1. Gave 1} gr. muriate of strychnia, in butter, . . . 0O- 
2. Twitching and slight rigidity of extensors, . . . . 20 
3. First tetanic convulsion, . . . Oes0 
4. Dead; bladder voided, ... . Pa Ree ais (ih) ") (532) 
I do not make any remarks on the st ee although they suggest 
several points of much interest; I prefer simply adding them to the 
stock of facts already accumulated on the subject. 
Dr. Edward Bewley suggested the possibility that other sedative 
poisons might act as antidotes also, their action on the nervous system 
being antagonistic to that of strychnia; and he gave his reasons for 
making the suggestion by relating an accidental experiment which the 
late Dr. Baxwell, of Abbeyleix, and he made, some thirty years ago, 
when strychnia was first introduced into this country. They wished to 
put a speedy end to the existence of a mangy cur; and, as Dr. Bewley had 
just read Magendie’s ‘‘ Report upon Strychnia,”’ in which he says that 
‘the sixteenth of a grain will kill the largest dog,”’ he determined to make 
sure work of his very litt/e animal, and accordingly administered what was 
supposed to be halfagrain, ormore. Either Magendie had made a false 
statement, or the drug was adulterated; for, at the end of ten minutes, 
the dog was not dead. He was bent backwards in a bow, and seemed 
to suffer so much from tetanic convulsions that it was resolved to put him 
out of pain at once. Dr. Bewley mixed at least half a drachm of medi- 
cinal prussic acid of the shops with a little milk, in a saucer, and ma- 
naged to thrust it under the patient’s snout. He lapped the milk with 
avidity, and in less than a minute discharged his stomach, got upon his 
legs, ran away, and recovered ! 
Dr. John Aldridge remarked that Mr. Haughton’s proposal involved 
the introduction of a new principle in toxicological science, hitherto 
overlooked, namely, the employment of a physiological, not a mere che- 
mical, antidote; the object being, not as heretofore, simply to render 
the poison inert, but to neutralize the poisoning. 
W. R. Wilde, Esq., presented the following donations to the Library 
and Museum :— 
