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EXTRACTS FROM A LECTURE ON STRYCHNINE. 
man of genius is ever produced, if the child is always the 
repetition of his parents ? How can two parents of ordinary 
capacity produce a child of extraordinary power? The 
answer must be postponed until we come to treat of second- 
ary influences. For the present, we content ourselves with 
insisting on the conclusion to which the foregoing survey of 
facts has led, namely, that both parents are always represented 
in the offspring ; and although the male influence is sometimes 
seen to preponderate in one direction, and the female influence 
in another, yet this direction is bv no means constant, is often 
reversed, and admits of no absolute reduction to a known 
formula. We cannot say absolutely, “ the male gives such 
organs;” we cannot even say, “ the male always prepon- 
derates in such or such a direction.” Both give all organs ; 
sometimes one preponderates, sometimes the other. In one 
family we see children resembling the father, children resem- 
bling the mother, and children resembling both. — Westminster 
Review. 
{To be continued .) 
EXTRACTS EROM A LECTURE ON STRYCHNIA. 
By Stevenson Macadam, Ph.D., F.H.S.E. 
{Continued from p. 609.) 
Through the kindness of Dr. Littlejohn, Lecturer on Medical Juris- 
prudence, I became part on-looker and part experimenter on a large dog, 
which had been seized and incarcerated by the Edinburgh police. The fol- 
lowing are the doses, &c., given to 
THE LARGE POLICE DOG. 
X 2 gr. of strychnine in bread-pill, 
is gr. 
13 g r * « » 
13 gr- 
3 grs. „ on liver. 
3 grs. „ _ „ 
Symptoms of uneasiness. 
Quick running motion — animal fell on its side — most 
violent tetanic spasms came on, accompanied by 
heavy breathings. 
Repose. 
Death. 
The post-mortem examination was conducted under the superintendence 
of Dr. Littlejohn, and the parts were handed over to me. Strychnine was 
present in (I) the intestines, (2) the blood, (3) urine, and (4) muscle. In 
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