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ON SEDATIVES AND TOX1CATIVES. 
I have now given a sufficient number of citations to shew, first, 
from whence this Lecture “ On the Organization of Living 
Beings” is principally derived ; and, secondly, the kind of origi- 
nality which is peculiar in this case to Mr. Ferguson as an 
author. That he has pilfered from the works of Todd and Bow- 
man, and Dr. Carpenter, is so very evident, that it cannot for a 
moment be a matter of the least dispute. Had Mr. Ferguson 
possessed the honesty to acknowledge from whom he obtained 
the substance of his “ Lecture,” I, for one, should not have taken 
the least notice ; but when an individual appears before the pub- 
lic SOMEWHAT IN THE CAPACITY OF A TEACHER, and, by his 
apparent or assumed superiority of language and profundity of 
thought, claims in an indirect manner our assent to his intellectual 
pre-eminence, it is but right, previous to our yielding such assent, 
that we investigate his claims, and, if we find them based upon 
a good foundation, then yield him his proper due ; but if, after 
such investigation, we find that this superior language and pro- 
fundity of thought are the produce of other minds, from whom it 
has been PILFERED, we ought, in common courtesy to those who 
are so pilfered, to expose the insolent assumption of these empty- 
headed pretenders, and place them on that level which nature 
from the first intended they should occupy. I trust, then, that 
Mr. Ferguson, before he publishes another “ Lecture,” or pre- 
sumes in any way to instruct the public, will not only consider the 
works of others “ may be consulted with advantage,” but that, 
sooner or later, that public will discover HIS merits, and reward 
him accordingly. 
REMARKS IN REFERENCE TO THOSE MADE BY MR. 
GAVIN ON SEDATIVES AND TOXICATIVES. 
By T. T. Davies, Llanrwst. 
FROM Mr. Gavin’s remarks on the use of sedatives and tox- 
icatives in tetanus, he seems to infer that stimulants are be- 
neficial in tetanus: their primary effect I should suppose could 
not be so ; their ultimate effect doubtless is. It is generally 
admitted that the primary effect of opium is stimulant, and that 
its ultimate effect as a sedative is owing to the depression con- 
sequent upon the cessation of its primary effect. Analogous to 
this, is the primary and ultimate effect of alcohol. I infer that the 
