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ON DIGITALIS. 
same powder, and obtained in the same experiments, had no 
appreciable effect on these animals, even in the dose of 2, 3, 
or 4 scruples. In this latter case, the poison produced merely 
a local irritation, and passed completely, without being ab- 
sorbed into the evacuations, where the oil was found one or 
two hours after its injection. M. de Gasparin recently an- 
nounced to the Academy of Sciences, that arsenious acid 
was not a poison for sheep affected with pleurisy.* I now 
announce a fact, which, if not so important in its conse- 
quences, is at least as curious; viz., that the purple Digitalis 
which is poison for man and dogs, has no injurious action 
o nfowls in a state of health." 
Journ. de Pit arm, for July, and Chem. Gaz. 
* This assertion of M. Gasparin was, however, not confirmed by the 
commission appointed by the Academy of Sciences to inquire into the 
subject. See this Journal, p. 199. Ed. 
