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SARRACENIA PURPUREA. 
sent it is impossible to estimate the pecuniary loss which it 
will entail, and which is not simply confined to the number 
of deaths; for even the animals which have passed safely 
through the attack present such a weak and emaciated 
appearance as to render them quite unsaleable, and the sub¬ 
sequent care and attention which they will require to effect 
their perfect restoration will be considerable, and will be 
necessarily attended with great expense. 
DEATH OF THE SHEPHERD. 
Adding misfortune to misfortune, the poor old shepherd, 
who had tended the flock for the last thirty years, dropped 
down dead among his sheep last Thursday evening. Proud 
of his flock, which had always borne a high character and 
reflected credit upon his management, the poor man seemed 
to feel the visitation most acutely, and there is no doubt 
that the anxiety under which he had been labouring for the 
previous month, acting upon a diseased heart, tended to 
bring about his melancholy end. He was endeavouring to 
catch one of the sheep on Thursday evening, when he fell 
with the animal under him, and almost instantly expired.— 
Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette. 
THE SARRACENIA PURPUREA :* A REMEDY EOR SMALLPOX. 
By Fred. W. Morris, M.D., Physician of the Halifax 
Dispensary. 
You have by this time, in all probability, heard something 
of an extraordinary discovery for the cure of smallpox, by 
the use of Sarracenia jpurpurea, or Indian Cup, a native plant 
of Nova Scotia. I would beg of you, however, to give full 
publicity to the astonishing fact that this same humble bog- 
plant of Nova Scotia is the remedy for smallpox in all its 
forms, in twelve hours after the patient has taken the medi¬ 
cine. It is also as curious as it is wonderful that, however 
alarming and numerous the eruptions, or confluent or frightful 
* A communication from Mr. Herbert Miles, respecting this remedy, was 
read at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society, in the latter part of last 
year, and was noticed in this journal, vol. iii (2nd series), p. 323. Mr. Miles, 
who is assistant-surgeon to the Royal Artillery, was then quartered in 
Canada.— Ed. Ph. Journ. 
