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juice of the same quadrupeds bears the nearest resemblance 
to that of man. 
STATE OE IRON IN THE BLOOD. 
It is the opinion of M. Fabri that iron exists in the blood 
in the form of albuminate of iron and soda. His reasons for 
this are, first, these three substances, by simple direct contact, 
form a soluble salt; secondly, their chemical combination is 
so powerful that it is not destroyed by the most delicate 
reagent for the metal, hence the necessity of interposing 
some body to effect the decomposition of the compound ere 
the existence of the iron can be demonstrated. 
M. Fabri contends that in the various diseases for which 
iron is prescribed it would be judicious to administer it in 
the form of albuminate, this being the condition in which 
nature has placed it within our organism, 
SUPPOSED ANTIDOTE EOR STRYCHNIA. 
In a former number we recorded instances of arsenic 
proving the means of preventing death taking place from 
strychnia, such being the result of mere accident. We 
cannot see how such an agent can really be antidotal, unless 
it should be that an innocuous, or comparatively so, arsenical 
salt is formed by the union of the acid and the alkaloid. 
This is mere conjecture. 
The following instance is somewhat similar. 
A correspondent of the Dublin Medical Press writes :—“ I 
was called to see a valuable pointer bitch, and found her 
lying in the stable perfectly stiff, with her head thrown back, 
and her mouth shut so fast that it required an iron bar to 
open it, and to bend a joint was impossible. It appeared 
that the dog had eaten a portion of a poisoned rabbit. I 
took about five grains of turbeth mineral , diffused in a little 
water, and with the assistance of two men got her mouth 
open, and succeeded in administering the drug. In about ten 
minutes the bitch opened her eyes, and shortly afterwards 
threw a quantity of fatty matter off her stomach; presently 
her limbs became pliable, and in about half an hour she was 
able to walk about, and was perfectly recovered in a short 
time/' 
