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therapeutically administering metals which cannot now be given in the state of ordinary 
solution, owing to the facility with which they are decomposed .*—Dublin Medical 
Press. 
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* Some closely allied reaction appears to have been applied to the production of a solution of 
bismuth, which is miscible with water, and which is evidently only a solution of the oxide in the 
ammoniacal salt of some organic matter. 
