210 Arsenic Eating, and its Influence upon 
has been generally attributed to Dr. v. Tschudi, pe published 
a communication upon the subject in 1 abstract of 
which may be found in Chambers’ Edinburgh J outa Decem- 
ber 20, 1851, [N. S., No. 416,] p. 389.+ 
Two years later, v. Tschudi me cane communication, 
in support of his previous assertions :—this, in connection with 
his first letter which had ciocicpaly attracted ‘conser lit- 
tle attention, was very extensively co 
imilar stories had been epee bactearas long before the 
letters of v. Tschudi were made ic. For example, our own 
attention was first directed to the say ect by the statement pub- 
lished in the Penny Cyclopedia of he Society for the Diffusion 
of Useful Know ledge, | London, 1832, ii, 408. Art. “ Arsente, 
Medical Uses of.” 
“That its dpe oxyd of arsenic] employment in such doses [sly oF 
ts of a grain] as we have stated is not only safe but beneficial, may be 
daticfactorly proved. Not on are old worn out horses endo wed wi 
new vigor, improved appetite, d&c., by its use, but pigeons to which this 
sept is given, show greater appetite and Livelibe ss than others without 
; and in n Upper Styria se homey et ue it as a seasoning with many 
ph of food, such as ¢ 
Tn the AS skies wk Surgical Journal, 1835, xii, 211, 
the following : 
= De cee in his Medicinische geemreoes relates in ext 
cation of the extent to which the system may bec accustomed to 
operation of arsenic, that a peasant who resided near a convent in ie 
Tyrol, for a long time, took ten grains of arsenic daily with his food.” ne 
Tn noticing the article in Chambers’ Journal, for 1851, a cor 
respondent of the London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of 
3 Medios) Science, February, 1852, xiv, 190, cites the following 
tracts 
age m La 
In ext ‘ettoneo in Jou Chim ° Niédivals oe 1854, [8.] x, 489; from 
Presse Midicale Belge ; ie paint de la Société des Sciences médicales et nal” ‘ 
elles de Bruxelles ; abstract in — Edinburgh Journal, June 11th, 185% 
n abstract of the first 1851 letter, i in aap Gazette Hépitauz, of Paris, 
16, 1854, p. 229; from rato ) Bruseles, (sen a nf 
and Gazette, July 1854, xxx, 66,) is is pecage he best known of any of the =f 
Tschudi’s statements, 7 be that given by J ag 
pag oem in his Set es Mcinges Life, New York, Appleton, 1855 ; i, 166; 
ne, Dec. 1 
— 
iene peg ae Medicinische praktische riobensgee ere malt 
e, U. 
Gerold, 1881] 8 Heilverfahrens aus dem Tagebuch mei fe 
