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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
tion is very little altered, while it is rendered much more 
palatable. 
To the physician, the foregoing remarks are believed to be 
fraught with advantage, as it gives him the power to control 
the efficiency of his remedy by merely directing a quantity 
of simple syrup to be mixed with the solution, when he 
has reason to believe that it is not done previously, and 
increasing the dose proportionably. To the pharmaceutist 
it offers to be equally beneficial, by rendering a preparation, 
hitherto uncertain and inelegant, permanent in its medicinal 
power, and free from a sedimental deposit, which, he will 
admit, adds nothing to the appearance of his bottle. 
ART. III. — ACCIDENTS FROM ARSENIC. By John Millman. 
The frequent accidents which occur from the great facility 
of obtaining arsenic for destroying rats, and also for criminal 
purposes, render it incumbent upon all those who vend the 
article to adopt such measures as would enable any one to de- 
tect its presence in the ordinary articles of food, &c, it might 
be mixed with. 
In France, where the legal restrictions imposed upon the 
sale of poisons are infinitely more strict than we can ever ex- 
pect them to be in this country, we find gentlemen of our 
profession deeply interested in this subject, and recently Mr. 
Grimeau's plan has been submitted to the consideration of 
the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris. Mr. G. proposes to co- 
lor all the arsenious acid, sold in commerce under different 
denominations, with a mixture of sulphate of iron and eyanu- 
ret of potassium ; the minute proportions of a hundredth part of 
each of those substances would suffice to impart such striking co- 
lors to the various articles of food, &c. which it might have been 
mixed with, as would at once serve as a caution to the least 
experienced eye. In cases where the above preparations had 
