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patient was really affected with a syphilitic bubo or with a gland of 
quite another nature. 
The fact is, that a new quantity of the ointment, made in the same 
proportions, but employed this time as it should have been in the first 
instance, caused this singular tumor to disappear in a few days. When 
I saw it in the middle of the thigh, it rolled under pressure of the 
fingers. He assured me that he had not perceived any pain in the 
epigastrium, nor in other parts of the digestive tube, only he must have 
had a great desire to be cured, to masticate, in some measure, this fat, 
for which he has since retained a horrible disgust. The opiate, on its 
part, had caused him to suffer much, by producing the effect of a 
vesicatory incessantly irritated by rubbing with a cloth, in the angle of 
the abdomen and the commencement of the thigh. 
To sum up: Can 16 grammes of pure iodide of potassium be absorbed 
by an adult in forty-eight hours, without any accident resulting ? This 
is not my opinion. Then, in this case, however exceptional, was not 
the fatty body employed in the preparation of the ointment opposed to 
the entire absorption of the iodide? Did it not form with the gastric 
juice an emulsion which would pass intact into the chyliferous vessels? 
Finally, was the deleterious action of medicine averted by a particular 
cause 1 ? 
It is for physicians to solve the question already so often put, whether 
iodide of potassium may be employed in very large doses without 
danger. 
In therapeutics, this medicine is very valuable, and it would be de- 
sirable to fix the quantity in which it may be employed. — Ibid. 
Camphorated Saponaceous Spirit, or Liquid Opodeldoc, By Giseke, 
of Eisleben. — For several years, this spirit has not only been prescribed 
by the physicians of Eisleben, under the name of liquid opodeldoc, 
but it has also been in public demand more frequently than the ordinary 
solid opodeldoc. It justly deserves to be preferred to the latter, because 
it is better preserved than in the flasks which contain it, and because it is 
more easily applied ; it may also be more easily associated with other 
preparations when necessary. The following is the mode of preparing 
it:— 
R White and dry castile soap - - - 60 
Camphor 15 
Highly rectified spirit of wine - - 500 
Volatile oil of thyme 4 
Volatile oil of rosemary 3 
Liquid caustic ammonia - - 30 
Mix and dissolve S. A., then filter. 
Ibid, from Jlrchiv. der Pharmacie. 
