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and cartilaginous indurations, if the ganglionic system at the 
same time is brought into sympathy. 
4. Dr. Kuchler is of opinion, that when arsenic is employed, 
those forms of preparation should be selected which are now 
in use among the most skilful surgeons. 
N. B. — ^It would be useless to remind our readers that this 
is not the first time, that accidents have occurred in conse- 
quence of the use of the arsenical paste. We may also remark 
that the employment of corrosive sublimate is also not with- 
out risk. Of this the following case is a proof: — 
A child 6 years old, labouring under bronchitis, of lym- 
phatic constitution, hair thin and flaxen, had been often 
affected with vermin of the head. As is my practice, under 
similar circumstances and never previously with any incon- 
venience, I prescribed a powder of 6 grs. of calomel and two 
drachms of anise, to be sprinkled over the head and then 
covered with a night-cap. This was during the warm wea- 
ther of June. Two hours after the application, the child 
experienced violent pain in the head, the scalp became red 
and tumefied, and frequent vomiting ensued. The head was 
washed carefully, and allowed to remain uncovered as before, 
a cataplasm was applied to the abdomen, and as every 
species of drink was rejected, even cold sugared water, 
several hours were allowed to pass without allowing any 
fluid to be swallowed, injections of starch were administered 
every five or six hours. The vomiting soon ceased com- 
pletely, the intense fever, and the great heat which had 
accompanied the vomiting subsided, the child was gradually 
put upon the use of gum-water, at the commencement given 
by the tea spoonful hourly. Was not the deuto-chloride of 
mercury employed instead of the proto-chloride ? 
One thing alone could have favoured the action of the 
proto-chloride; it is, that upon the day that the powder was 
employed, three scabs from a papulous eruption which had 
developed itself upon the head, had been removed, over these 
places, scarcely three lines in diameter, the cutis was left bare; 
