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“been mislaid. I shall therefore confine myself to a very 
cursory statement, showing that the exhibition of these salts 
is slowly gaining ground both among Medical Practitioners 
and others engaged in Arts and Commerce. In a late pub- 
lication, by order of the Agricultural Society of Scotland, 
on the symptoms and treatment of the cattle-plague, it is 
confidently asserted that where the disease appears its pro- 
gress can be prevented from extending, by giving to the 
unaffected members of the herd 3 ounce doses of Bisulphite 
of Soda daily. This information, from such a source, should 
be joyfully hailed by our planters and applied to the varied 
epidemics which from time to time attack their working 
stock and for which the treatment hitherto adopted has 
proved both uncertain and usually unsuccessful. It has 
also been further stated on apparently reliable authority, 
that in the district of the Abruzzi in Italy, where the same 
pest was raging, one-third of the animals treated by the 
Bisulphite of Soda recovered. In a late medical journal, 
an English physician in describing an epidemic of Scarlet- 
Eever, states that 36 cases treated by himself, some of whom 
were in a precarious state when first seen, all recovered, and 
in no instance did the malady extend to the other inmates 
of the same houses. This may be considered unusual suc- 
cess in the treatment of a malady as much dreaded in the 
Northern Counties and in Scotland as the plague is on the 
shores of the Levant. Finally, during the last epidemic of 
Cholera in England, we have the evidence of Dr. Scoffern, 
whose skill in Chemical Pharmaceutics can scarcely be sur- 
passed, that every case of Choleraic Diarrhoea which he 
treated with Bisulphite of Soda was at once arrested and 
prevented from passing into the fully developed malady. 
I shall now beg your attention to a short description of the 
