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formed being gradually dissolved by the stomachal and intes- 
tinal acids. Magnesia may, however, retard the effects of 
the poison, although it cannot entirely counteract them. 
2. The hydrated sulphuret of iron decomposes the salts of 
copper immediately, and the sulphuret of copper is well- 
nigh insoluble in the juices of the alimentary canal. How 
far the sulphuret of iron may act disadvantageously, by 
liberating sulphuretted hydrogen gas, further experience is 
required to show. 
3. The reductive power of sugar takes place, at the tem- 
perature of our bodies, far too slowly to be available in acute 
copper poisoning. It may be useful, when taken abundantly 
in water, to excite or favour vomiting. 
4. Of all pharmaceutical substances, the ferrocyanide of 
potass is the best. Large quantities may be taken without 
material disadvantage to the economy ; the ferrocyanide of 
copper which is immediately produced, being very insoluble. 
5. Milk and white of egg neutralize poisonous salts of 
copper, and have the advantage of being easily obtained. 
Care should be taken to evacuate as rapidly as possible the 
albuminates and caseats of copper thus produced. — Buchner's 
Repertorium , 1855, No. 2. 
EXTRACT FROM LORD ASHBURTON’S SPEECH TO THE 
SCHOOL-MASTERS OF HANTS AND WILTS. 
“ I would take you amid the high-priced stock of our 
farms, and show you that the medical attendance to which 
their care is too often intrusted, is as inferior to the instructed 
Veterinary practitioner, as was the surgeon-barber of Queen 
Elizabeth’s time to Sir Astley Cooper or Sir Benj. Brodie 
of the present day.” 
April 23, 1855. 
