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the stomach forms, out of the insoluble compounds, a soluble 
salt, which instead of acting on the coat of that organ, is in- 
stantly decomposed by the antidote. The stomach, in every 
instance, being the medium, like the iron in the case of the 
iodine and potash, by which the affinities are brought into play. 
The experiments of Sir B. Brodie and others have proved 
that where a solution of from six to twenty grains of corrosive 
sublimate is injected into the stomach of a full grown rabbit, 
it very soon produces difficult respiration, convulsions, and 
soon after death. In our last experiment, therefore, in which 
a solution of four grains of corrosive sublimate was injected 
into the stomach of a half grown rabbit, death must have en- 
sued, unless the gold and iron had been given. 
A solution of corrosive sublimate acts on the stomach purely 
as an irritant, or as a caustic, accordingly as a weak or strong 
solution is swallowed. Toxicologists have not, so far as we 
know, made any practical distinction between the irritant and 
of medicine affects the confidence of the people in the science generally 
in proof of which, it is only necessary to remember the want of confidence 
felt by all who dealt with apothecaries, for some time subsequent to the 
melancholy instance above stated. It is through the same channel, that 
medicine will become undefinably associated in popular estimation with 
quackery : for how is it now % The able chemist and pharmacologists in 
whom the physician places a well merited confidence, is not clearly dis- 
tinguished from the commonest retailer of drugs without knowledge of 
their qualities, or the notorious vender and advertiser of quack nostrums. 
In the present exact and elevated state of our science, it is right that it 
should be severed from all connexion with every thing which has even a 
shadow of quackery; and we feel confident that nothing will effect this end, re- 
press the evils already pointed out, and tend, at present, so much to supply 
the wants of our profession, as the establishment of a College of Pharmacy. 
The city council of New Orleans have lately, in a commendable spirit, 
enacted laws prohibiting the publication of quack remedies, having im- 
posed a fine of twenty dollars on any one who advertises a specific in the 
daily journals, and a penalty of one hundred dollars is incurred for the 
offence of placarding a remedy at the corners of the streets. We can 
scarcely look at a daily newspaper, without seeing at a glance, certificates 
palming off the virtues of some notorious patent specific, the advertise- 
ment of quack nostrums by an apothecary, and the wonderful perform- 
