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and even injurious: they “ die of a rose with aromatic pain.” 
Are these,, therefore, to be discarded and denounced, because 
of the imperfect senses or peculiarities of some persons ? 
Leaving this, we would, in conclusion observe, that by some 
persons it might be thought that so highly a scientific, and 
even recondite subject as that we have been descanting on, 
affects not the veterinary profession, and is consequently un¬ 
suited to our pages. With such we take leave to differ, for we 
believe that the time has arrived when the members of our 
profession need all the aids the sciences can give, especially 
those allied to medicine; it therefore follows that they must 
be made conversant with whatever is taking place connected 
with them, and no one for a moment will gainsay the advan¬ 
tages to be derived from an application of the principles of 
chemistry, and especially the modes of analysis. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
ON INDIAN HEMP .—CANNABIS SATIVA. 
By Dr. Fronmuller, of Fuerth. 
[The following article appears in the North American 
Medico-Chirurgical Review. We extract it because we are 
enabled to bear out the observations of the w T riter, as to the 
difference in action of this drug on the lower animals in this 
country and India. Our professional brethren there are 
sometimes in the habit of successfully employing it in cases 
of tetanus, for w^hich disease it has proved here of but little 
w T orth. There remains much in connexion with this agent, 
on which we think some light might be thrown by our friends 
in India. Dr. Fronmuller, who writes for the human subject, 
considers that some ethereal ingredient in the Indian hemp 
is destroyed by transport; and when he says it * c has become 
known but lately,” we presume he refers to his own country.] 
Indian hemp has become known but lately. First welcomed 
as a new narcotic remedy, it seems to have been abandoned 
again on account of its uncertain and weak effect. This is at 
least the case in Germany and France, and the causes of it 
are easily found. The contradictions of the authors are dis- 
