216 Arsenic Eating, &c. 
gastric dyspepsia, or any inflammatory disorder. On the other-hand, the 
are in most cases borne well by individuals of a somewhat jphlegmatic, 
debilitated, or lax habit of body, more particularly, 
eases of the skin appear rather to be dependent upon a degree of Sen 
ing or removing those morbid changes that are the results of an 4 
mal condition in their secernent and nutrient functions.” 
these springs are known to contain.* A doctrine which is pt 
licly taught by several of the chemical Professors at ihe? my 
en 
: ” only 
our notice, is adverse to the possibility of “ arsenic eating, only 
in so far as relates to the large quantities of the poison W 
jn 
is affirmed, the human body can accustom itself by long “ee 
ued habit, to support with impunity his last ong ae 
ever interesting in itself, is one on which very little 8 *I 
with certainty as yet, and is plainly of quite secondary eee of 
in a scientific point of view to that of the beneficial be 
moderate doses of arsenious acid, which would now appea? the 
ae hes m4) 
— cd is greatly to be hoped that further sie Fe oe 
ii . 
* Compare Walchner, Ann. Oh. u. Pharm., \xi, 206; or Comptes ibid. 2 
614. Figuier, Comptes Rendus, xxiii, 820, Chevallier and Schanefelé, aa 
750. Thenard, ibid. xxxix, 769. sae 
