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ful for children. Hitherto it has been combined with carbonate of potassa 
and a little volatile oil. 
The oil has also been given by injection, and employed by means of 
friction in larger doses. Ibid. 
Salicine in Intermittent Fever. — Dr. A. Fioris has employed salicine in 
one hundred and eight cases of intermittent fever, with the greatest suc- 
cess. The highest dose administered was twenty-four grains, and in 
every case, except two, the disease was immediately moderated by the 
remedy, and eventually cured. 
Med, Yahrbilcher, Vol, 24, p. 174, and Lancet. 
Preparation of Jalap. — The powder of jalap may be easily deprived of 
the nauseous taste, which renders it so disagreeable, by the following 
process: 
R. — Powdered Jalap, one part. 
Rectified Sulphuric Ether, three parts. 
Macerate for twenty-four hours, and then carefully decant the fluid which 
has acquired a deep yellow color. Add a fresh proportion of ether to the 
powder, macerate again for twenty-four hours, and decant. The powder 
must now be allowed to dry on a sheet of paper, and, when perfectly dry, 
is to be triturated in a mortar. By this means ma}r be obtained a powder 
which is completely deprived of odor, and still retains all its purgative 
properties. Lancet, 
Poisoning by a drachm and a half of Extract of Belladonna. — M. L. , 
aged 20, brother of an apothecary of Perigeux, had been taking, for several 
days, whey mixed with the juice of herbs. On the 27th of last August, 
towards 10 o'clock, P. M., he drank a glass of fluid, which he thought to 
be his usual dose, and went to bed. After half an hour's drowsiness, with 
extreme agitation, he was aroused from experiencing general uneasiness and 
extreme debility ; in a short time he became delirious, with universal and 
continued agitation, and noisy loquacity. He thought he saw around him 
flying butterflies and insects of every kind ; he scratched his skin, and 
rubbed his nose, and covered and uncovered himself constantly; his 
tongue became red and exceedingly dry; pulse 120; face injected; eyes 
red ; pupils so dilated that their opening was lost in the circumference of 
the cornea; the delirium became furious; it required six persons tore- 
strain him. 
M. Parrot administered in succession three grains of tartar emetic 
without effect, until the last, which produced some vomiting. He then 
had recourse to a large bleeding, in consultation with M. Galos; free 
puking was thus induced instantaneously, and there was voided a liquid 
having the color of a solution of belladonna. This was at 2 o'clock, P. M.; 
