ON TRUE OIL OF ORIGANUM. 
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The author of the above work describes (page 290) the ad- 
ministration of physic by olfaction. This is done by passing 
before the nose of the patient three or four globules in a small 
tube. We have heard of a lady who, having been subjected 
to this process by her homoeopathic doctor, passed the fee 
before his nose in a similar manner, and then replaced it in her 
pocket. 
Pharmaceutical Journal, January 1, 1851. 
POISONOUS PROPERTIES OF SULPHITE OF LEAD. 
[Continued from The Veterinarian for January 1851, p. 48.] 
Mr. Greaves, at a previous Meeting of the Society, gave 
an account of the action of sulphite of lead in dogs. Three 
dogs had been put under treatment; to one the sulphite of 
lead was daily administered in the food, to another it was both 
administered internally and applied by friction to the skin, and 
to the third it was administered by internal application only. 
The report of the two first cases had been given at a former 
Meeting ; but the poison had not then taken effect in the third 
case. The result in this case was communicated on the present 
occasion. 
After a period of thirty days, during which the salt was 
applied, the dog died with confirmed symptoms of poisoning. 
For some time previous to his death he lost his appetite, and 
became completely emaciated ; and during the last day or two 
of his existence he was affected with paralysis, so as to be 
unable to stand. Lead was found in the liver and other parts 
of the organism after death. 
Pharmaceutical Journal , Jan. 1851. 
ON TRUE OIL OF ORIGANUM. 
By Daniel Hanbury. 
In a recent number of the Pharmaceutical Transactions , I 
endeavoured to prove that the article sold in this country as oil 
of origanum is, in reality, the oil of thyme ( Thymus vulgaris), 
under which latter name it is imported from the south of 
France. I further stated, that, so far as my observations ex- 
tended, true oil of origanum was unknown in English com- 
merce. 
