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DOUBLE  SALTS  OF  IODIDE  OF  ANTIMONY. 
Twenty-nine  children  have  been  treated  by  this  lady  ;  all  with 
beneficial  results.  Two  of  those  brought  by  her  before  the  com- 
mission, and  who  had  been  treated  by  her  previously,  were  com- 
pletely cured.  Seven  children  have  been  submitted  to  the  com- 
mission previous  to  any  trials  being  made  upon  them,  and  their 
absolute  deafness  and  dumbness  demonstrated  by  Mademoiselle 
Cleret ;  and  in  all  cases,  but  especially  in  four,  a  manifest 
change  has  been  perceptible  after  eight  or  nine  months  of  treat- 
ment, and  the  patients  have  been  able  to  recognize  with  great 
ease  various  sounds.  The  reporter  to  the  commission  has  been 
careful  to  add  that  the  most  minute  precautions  were  taken  to 
avoid  sources  of  error,  and  to  guard  against  any  illusion  that 
might  arise  from  perception  derived  through  another  sense  than 
that  of  hearing. 
The  commission,  wishing  to  test  the  means  used  by  Made- 
moiselle Cleret  upon  other  cases  than  those  exclusively  under 
her  own  care,  deputed  one  of  their  number  to  carry  out  her  plan 
of  treatment  upon  other  patients.  Twenty  persons  were  accord- 
ingly entrusted  to  him  ;  most  of  them  were  deaf-mute  children, 
but  there  were  also  some  old  men  whose  hearing  was  impaired — 
in  some  cases  upon  one  side  only.  In  all  these  a  very  noticea- 
ble effect  was  produced.  It  was  also  found  that  patients  whose 
sense  of  hearing  had  become  impaired  through  typhoid  fever 
were  very  speedily  restored  by  the  same  treatment. 
In  conclusion,  the  commission  state  that  with  the  exception  of 
two  or  three  children  whose  deafness  and  dumbness  was  attested 
by  authentic  certificates,  and  who  now  hear  well,  it  has  de- 
termined nothing  but  the  incomplete  results  of  experiments 
commenced,  but  not  terminated,  manifest  improvement,  but 
nothing  more  definite. — Lond.  Pharm.  Jour.  Aug.  1860,  from 
Gazette  des  Hopitaux,  8th  May,  1860. 
DOUBLE  SALTS  OF  IODIDE  OF  ANTIMONY. 
The  iodide  of  antimony  forms  beautiful  double  salts  with  the 
iodides  of  the  alkaline  metals,  several  of  which  are  described  by 
SchaefFer.  He  obtains  them  by  adding  the  iodide  of  antimony 
in  fine  powder  to  hot  saturated  solutions  of  the  other  iodides, 
and  then  slowly  evaporating  the  solution  at  the  ordinary  tern- 
