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quantity of sulphur to the sulphite, and through the respira¬ 
tion can generate successively a large quantity of sulphite in 
the sj^stem. 2^nd. The hyposulphite of lime has also a very 
supportable taste, and does not undergo alterations on ex¬ 
posure to the air. 
Its special and yjeculiar indication would be in tuberculous 
phthisis in the third stage, either to protect the organism 
against the absorption of purulent pus, or to favour the 
cicatrization and the occlusion of the calcareous caverns in the 
lungs. 23rd. The sulphites, when administered internally, 
are found in the urine in the state of sulphate, and partly in 
the state of undecomposed sulphite; and the hyposulphites 
in the state of sulphate, sulphite, and undecomposed hypo¬ 
sulphite, even in the short space of twelve hours after their 
administration. Their therapeutic action on the organism 
does not depend on the separation of the sulphuric acid in its 
free state; all their antifermentative power is exercised when 
in the state of salts, and the medical practitioner ought even 
to guard against the separation of their acids in the intestine?, 
by recommending the patient to abstain from lemonade, 
orangeade, preserved fruit, such as tamarinds, &c., as it is 
well understood that the citric, tartaric, malic, and oxalic acids 
decompose the sulphites and the hyposulphites. 
The result from the ensemble of this memoir is, that the 
doctrine of morbid ferments has played an important part in 
the medical theories of the last century, and that modern 
science has known how to appropriate it by despoiling it of 
its evident exagerations, based on rational suppositions of 
indisputable merit. 
The numerous experiments made by M. Palli on animals, 
have already given confirmation to the ingenious ideas 
of this learned chemist. It is now for clinical experiments, 
made on a large scale, divested of all preconceived ideas to 
pronounce its ultimatum on the value of the doctrine of the 
cotalytic maladies, and on the therapeutic efficacy of the 
sulphites. 
Already this medicament is the object of clinical experiments 
in Belgium, as well as in Italy and England. 
We will carefully collect the results that we expect from 
fresh experiments, which will be the subject of a second 
memoir, and in which it is hoped we shall have an accu¬ 
mulation of facts sufficient to enable the reader to attain to a 
perfect knowledge of the subject, and to appreciate the doctrine 
of which we have constituted ourselves the impartial in¬ 
terpreters. 
[At page 396 , of vol. xxxv of the Veterinarian^ will be found 
an article on the above interesting subject.] 
