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the day, and on the third week I had the satisfaction of leaving 
her perfectly free from complaint. 
"The second case was one of wakefulness without any appa- 
rent cause. All the usual preparations of opium had been tried 
without much benefit, and with suffering from headach and 
nausea on the mornings following the nights on which the nar- 
cotics had been given. The solution of the bi-meconate of 
morphia was given in doses of twenty minims ; it effectually 
procured sleep, and was not productive of the morning dis- 
tress which had supervened on the use of the other prepara- 
tions of opium. 
"The third case was one of anomalous pain Of the hip ex- 
tending down the thigh, which recurred three or four times 
in twenty-four hours. The patient had been frequently at- 
tacked with rheumatism : and conceiving it to be connect- 
ed with that disease, the part was cupped, and the guaiacum 
mixture with small doses of blue pill was prescribed. Little 
benefit resulted until a week afterwards, when I ordered the 
part to be blistered, and the denuded part to be dressed with 
a piece of lint dipped in your solution thrice a-day. The 
pain rapidly abated, and on the fourth day it was completely 
gone. 
"From the limited experience which I have had of the 
use of the solution, I am of the opinion that it possesses decid- 
ed anodyne properties and stimulates less than opium or its 
tincture; and is much more certain in its influence than any 
of the artificial salts or other preparations of the day." 
London Med. Gaz., March 9th, 1839. 
NECROLOGY. 
Bernard Courtois, the discoverer of iodine, died at Paris 
the 27th of September, 1838, leaving his widow without for- 
tune. If, on making this discovery, Courtois had taken out a 
certificate of invention, he would have realized a large estate. 
Journ. de Chim. Med. 
