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the accounts which have reached us, in regard to the use 

 of this article, no such action can be produced upon man 

 from any preparation of the hemp in use in America, as is 

 represented to be produced amongst the subjects of His 

 Majesty, the Sultan of Turkey. The genuine preparations 

 of Indian Hemp produce in man great excitement, high 

 spirits, great laughter, talkativeness, pleasing thoughts, and 

 a great appetite for food and sexual excitement, followed 

 by sleep, from which the person recovers without any 

 unpleasant effects. Experiments instituted by the writer 

 with this medicine upon horses, do not warrant its intro- 

 duction into the list of horse and cattle medicines. 



Henbane. — Hyoscyamus Niger. An extract and a 

 tincture is ordered to be kept in the drug stores. Hyos- 

 cyamus is indicated in all cases where belladonna is used. 

 It has, however, little effect upon animals chewing the 

 cud. To horses, it is occasionally given to relieve cough 

 and irritation of the throat or windpipe. 



Dose. For horses, one to two drachms of the extract 

 is the dose, which should be given, rubbed down in a little 

 cold water, and repeated several times in the day. Better 

 drugs, and less expensive ones, answer a better purpose. 

 This medicine was formerly relied upon for the cure of 

 insane persons, but is now almost discarded for that 

 purpose. 



Iodine. — A chemical preparation manufactured from 

 kelp or sea-weed and used both rightfully and wrongfully 

 in many diseases. However, iodine itself is, I think, of 

 little value as a medicine; but when united chemically 

 with iron, copper, mercury, lead, arsenic and potassium, it 

 certainly is one of the most useful and indispensable of 

 medical agents, given internally, and applied externally. 



