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person in turn is buyer and seller according to the nature of 
his business or his wants for the time being: 
“ There is not a single article representing the animal, 
vegetable, or mineral kingdoms, and used for the nutriment 
of man, for his apparel, for his necessities, his caprices, or 
his delight, which has not been publicly vended among us 
in an adulterated, damaged, or noxious state. Our meat has 
been diseased, and has induced carbuncles; our white fish 
has been green, and our green vegetables white ; our sugar 
has been sand or lime ; our wheaten bread potatoes and 
alum ; our mustard has been flour ; our beer has been 
drugged, and our drugs poisoned. The very air which we 
breathe and the water which we drink have partaken of the 
universal pollution. The rich, who are enabled by their 
position and their wealth to deal only with tradesmen of the 
highest class, have but little idea of the extent to which this 
adulteration has prevailed.” 
If this be a correct literal version of the evidence, and the 
evidence a true statement of facts, it is wonderful that any 
person is left alive to tell the tale. But if it be the object of 
the remarks above quoted to bring the evidence and the la- 
bours of the Committee into ridicule, we have only to say 
that the subject is too serious and important to be dealt with 
in that way. The object of the Committee is to collect in- 
formation, to elicit the truth, with a view of ascertaining 
what remedy can be found for abuses, the existence of which 
is not disputed. The evidence translated in the language of 
the Times is very far removed from the truth, calculated to 
mislead those who take it as sober earnest, and to disgust 
those who read it as a joke . — Pharmaceutical Journal, 
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A curious event occurred a few days ago in the University 
of Leipsic ; Dr. Reclam, professor of legal medicine, was 
lecturing on nicotine, and to show the deadly effects of the 
poison he administered a large dose of it to a big dog. The 
animal, which was lying on its back, was immediately seized 
with convulsions, and ejected a considerable portion of the 
poison with great violence ; it struck the professor in the face, 
and some of it entered his mouth. The doctor was imme- 
diately seized with all the symptoms of poisoning, but anti- 
dotes were promptly applied, and he was soon placed out of 
danger, but he suffered greatly, and had to be conveyed home. 
