FERRUGINATED PILL OF MERCURY. 
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eligible for the strumous, the irritable, and for reduced ane- 
mial constitutions requiring mercury. The powers of life 
are not so much (scarcely at all) prostrated under its use. 
Its resolvent power is greater than that of mercury alone, 
especially with respect to buboes. Practitioners will at all 
events know what they are using; at present they have for 
blue-pill all manner of alloys and sulphurets — mercurial- 
zinc pill, mercurial-sulphur pill, &c. &c. 
Five grains of the sesquioxide will suffice to amalgamate 
and divide a large quantity of mercury, but I propose the 
larger proportion as a remedy. 
London Lancet , March 11th, 1843. 
[The facility with which mercury may be reduced to a 
state of minute division by means of vegetable extracts, has 
already been pointed out in this Journal, vol. i., page 203, 
the time required for this purpose varying from ten minutes 
to half an hour, according to the nature of the extract em- 
ployed. The therapeutic value of Dr. Collier's preparation, 
as detailed in the above paper, entitles it to the considera- 
tion of the profession, as a new remedy, but we cannot re- 
commend the use of any succedaneum in the preparation of 
the blue pill of the Pharmacopoeia. A strict adherence to 
the order of the college produces a result uniform in strength 
and appearance. — Ed. Pharm. Journal.] 
