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Berliner Kl. JFoch., and finds that they neutralise each 
other. As the symptoms of poisoning by strychnine are 
very similar to those of tetanus, chloral would be a sovereign 
remedy for the latter, if its effects could be made to extend 
longer than the pathological irritation which gives rise to 
tetanus. Great improvement is, however, obtained by using 
the hydrate, as it seems to change the form of the complaint 
from the acute to the chronic, a change very likely to be fol¬ 
lowed by a cure. The salt should be given in the form of 
enema, and the dose may vary from 37 to 75 grains. Full 
doses should be given at once. Hypodermic injections are 
only exceptionally to be used, but the author states that his 
injections with the platino-iridium syringe never were fol¬ 
lowed by abscess. 
White Oils. 
01. Terebinthinae 
• 3 V - 
Ol. Lini 
• 3 v ’j- 
Sp. Camph. 
. 3ss. 
Sp. iEth. Nit. 
• Si- 
Tr. Opii 
• • • 3b 
Mellis 
s. a. 
01. Terebinthinae 
• 3 v b 
Liq. Vol. C. C. . 
• 3 v b 
Ol. Rapae . 
• • • 3vj. 
Ol. Origani 
. 31V. 
Lin. Sapon. 
• - • 3>j- 
—Bharm Journ. 
Adulteration of Lard. —The author, having purchased 
some beautiful white lard, found it to contain a large propor¬ 
tion of lime. Mr. Shuttleworth was afterwards told by a 
lard Tenderer that it was a common practice among lard 
dealers to mix from 2 to 5 per cent, of milk of lime with the 
melted lard. A saponaceous compound is thus formed that 
is not only pearly white, but will allow of the stirring in, 
during the cooling, of 25 per cent, of water.—G. B. Shut¬ 
tleworth, Canad. Bharm. Journ. 
