591 SULPHIDE OF ARSENIC IN SULPHIDE OF ANTIMONY. 
short radicles, fibrous and stringy, which, when powdered, 
have a very faint and agreeable aroma, with a taste very like 
the willow T alkaloid, or salicin. The dose of the medicine—• 
the powdered root—is about a dessert-spoonful, simmered 
in a pint of water down to half a pint; this is divided into 
two doses, one taken immediately, the other in six hours; no 
sugar should be given with it. The only functional influence 
it seems to have is in promoting the flow of urine, w 7 hich 
soon becomes limpid and abundant, and this is owing, per¬ 
haps, to the defecated poison or changed virus of the disease 
exclusively escaping through that channel. The Sarracenia I 
take reason is to believe a powerful antidote for all contagious 
diseases—lepra, measles, varicella, plague, contagious typhus, 
and even syphilis; also a remedy in jaundice. I am strongly 
inclined to think it will one day play an important part in 
all these.— Amer. Med. Times. 
SULPHIDE OE ARSENIC IN COMMERCIAL SULPHIDE OE 
ANTIMONY. 
By R. Reynolds, F.C.S. 
A few months since I received a small quantity of pow r - 
dered black antimony for analysis, being informed that 
several calves had died after its administration. The animals 
had been dead some weeks, so that the only sources of evidence 
were the medicine itself and such facts as had been observed 
w ith respect to symptoms. After reporting the analysis, the 
following outline of the case w T as supplied to me; but as it 
occurred at a distance, and I w 7 as not directly in communi¬ 
cation with the owmer of the calves, it is not quite so full as 
it might otherwise have been. 
To each of twenty-four yearling calves w T as given one 
ounce of powdered black antimony, in a horn of urine. 
This w 7 as at 9 a.m., and the same evening one calf died, the 
whole of them being seriously ill. At varying intervals 
up to ten days further deaths occurred, until ten animals 
had succumbed. The others ultimately recovered. The 
symptoms were great cramp, constipation, and falling off of 
the hair. In two cases post-mortem examinations w 7 ere made, 
and great irritation of the mucous coat of the stomach was 
found. 
Analysis .—The pow 7 der w r as boiled with w r ater, but neither 
arsenic nor any other matter w r as dissolved. To determine 
