HTTCIIELL — SULPHITES. 
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ciriar abeess in this climate can appreciate tlie boon that 
Tollli’s discovery holds out in this particular malady. It - 
is to be hoped that further experience will confirm Bicci’s 
statement and my own. Before leaving the subject I 
should mention that a gentleman who has used, the sulphite 
of soda very extensively during the last six months on his 
Estate, coincides with what has been statedas to its efficien- 
cy in the ordinary fevers of Indians, but has remarked that 
its exhibition for a prolonged period causes both debility 
and a tendency to looseness of the bowels. This is a se- 
rious inconvenience when the medicine has to bo given for 
weeks together, but it can fortunately bo obviated by sub- 
stituting one base for another, and using, sulphite of lime or 
the bisulphite, an article now much applied in Demorara to- 
the manufacture of sugar, and prepared there on a large 
scale by Mr. Sidney Lambert .. 
In cases of pernicious remittent fever, common, enough 
here in some of the swampy districts, the sulphite or bisul- 
phite of. ammonia, would probably be an invaluable pre- 
scription. It should be remembered that these prepara- 
tions do not stand exposure to the atmosphere,, but gradu- 
ally absorb its. oxygen and become sulphites, thus losing, 
their antizymotic virtue. The mare mentioned abovo lias 
not been cured of her skin disease, but she has been freed 
from worms, and tho foal at her foot has boon freed from, 
them also, apparently through the means of tho mother’s, 
milk. 
