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five cases that occurred in 1835. As many little girls aged 
from five to nine years, on leaving school, ate part of a cake 
containing one-fifth of its weight of white arsenic which had 
been prepared to kill rats. They all were affected violently 
with the early symptoms of poisoning, and were not seen un- 
til two hours or more after the accident, yet all recovered by 
the free use of the antidote. B. and F. Medical Review, 
volume i. p. 573. 
4. Dr. Buzorini relates in La Lancet te Francais, Novem- 
ber 17, 1835, two cases successfully treated. Jlmer. Joum. 
Aug. 1836, p. 504. 
5. Dr. Clinton of New York, in the United States, Medi- 
cal and Surgical Journal, vol. iii. p. 54, also relates a suc- 
cessful case. 
6. Mr. Robson, of Warrington, adminfstered with success, 
first, the subcarbonate of iron, in doses of six drachms, two 
hours after the poison had been taken, and afterwards the 
prepared oxide. Nearly three drachms of arsenic had been 
swallowed. American Journal of Medical Science, May, 
1837, p. 222. 
7. Dr.Thomas, of Baltimore, in a case where twenty grains 
of arsenic in powder had been given, gave the peroxide with 
success. Jimer. Med. Intel, vol. ii. p. 117. 
S. Mr. Macdonald — a successful case in New York Journ. 
of Medicine and Stirgery, vol. ii. p. 205. 
9. Dr. Gerhard — a successful case in the Philadelphia 
Medical Examiner, vol. iii. p. 250. 
10. Drs. Smiley and Wallace in the Philadelphia Medical 
Examiner, vol. iii. p. 679, out of a family of eight persons 
poisoned by a pudding of Indian meal, prepared for rats, 
death followed in two cases in seven and nine hours. They 
could not retain the antidote, but immediately rejected it. 
The symptoms of all the others were immediately mitigated 
by its use, and they all recovered. 
11. Dr. Murray, of India, successful. American Journ, 
Med. Sci., Feb., 1839, p. 503, from the Calcutta Medical 
Journ. Dec, 1837. 
