CHANGE OP CALOMEL. 
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produced. The same phenomena happens after the long con- 
tinued use of the protochloride of mercury, and from the same 
cause. 
3. As the quantity of corrosive sublimate formed can only 
be proportional to the amount of alkaline chlorides which are 
contained in the viscera, those persons who eat large quanti- 
ties of common salt, every thing else being equal, should be 
more susceptible than others, when under a mercurial course 
of medicine. 
4. The antisyphilitic properties are communicated to it, 
either in whole or in part, by the sublimate and the mercury 
to which its chemical decomposition gives rise. It is, without 
doubt, the same as regards its anthelmintic virtues ; it is by 
producing poisonous effects on the ascarides, by means of the 
two agents mentioned, that the mercurial chloride relieves us 
from these importunate guests. 
5. All that has been said of the medicinal action of calomel, 
may likewise be predicated of the prot-iodide of mercury, 
which, under the same circumstances, is converted intodeut- 
iodide. 
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