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blood, the viscera, and the muscles, resist cadaveric putrefac¬ 
tion much longer than animals killed under the same circum¬ 
stances, but without having been under the influence of the 
action of the sulphites. 7th. Animals to which a certain 
quantity of the sulphites have been given, resist the morbid 
action of pus, putrefied blood, or the matter of glanders in¬ 
jected into the veins, in doses to which other animals, under 
the same condition, would have contracted a grave malady, or 
perhaps died, in consequence. 8th. Animals into whose 
veins has been injected putrid matter, pus, or corrupted 
blood, and in whose veins has been injected at the same time, 
or immediately after, a solution of alkaline sulphite, resist the 
infection or recover in a few days, while in others identically 
the same, but without being sulphited, typhoid fever or death 
is produced. 9th. An animal which has supported the 
injection of putrid matter without being gravely incommoded, 
or has recovered from its effects, in a few days through the 
action of the sulphites, contract a grave malady or dies if 
again submitted to the same experiment without being sul- 
phited. 10th. In those animals which have been inoculated 
with the mucus of glanders, and treated by the sulphites, 
either previously or immediately after, it is true that the 
W'ound soon shows the characteristic signs of the malady, but 
the wound heals by degrees and cicatrizes, while the same 
inoculation performed on other animals, and identically under 
the same condition, a great swelling is produced, which 
causes death within a few hours, or else a general infection, 
with a multiplicity of abscesses, which ordinarily terminate in 
a few days in death, or later in general marasmus. 11th. 
The pus, or corrupted blood, or contagious ferment (as, for 
instance, those of glanders), might be neutralized in their 
effects on the living organism, and, in consequence, we can 
regulate and arrest the morbid action without the means 
employed being incompatible with life. 12th. The maladies 
in which the prophylactic or curative effects of the sulphites 
has been already ascertained, are those in which a patho¬ 
logical ferment acts in some manner or other, like in exan¬ 
thema, scrofulous affections, rheumatic fever, intermittent 
fever, or typhoid fevers (milliary and petechial, &c.), fevers 
induced by putrid reabsorption (puerperal fevers, &c.), epi¬ 
demic and contagious fevers. 13th. The perfect harm¬ 
lessness of the remedy admits of the administration of it 
as a prophylactic in many circumstances, and in these 
cases the success of it will always be more complete than in 
the treatment of a malady already fully developed; in fact 
its effects are limited to the neutralizing of the morbid fer¬ 
mentation, and not to the restoring or removing of the altera* 
