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PILULiE  METALORUM  ET  AMARUM. 
the  necessary  severing  of  the  periosteum.  But  from  the  first, 
blood  flowed  more  freely  than  usual.  I  directed  my  patient  to 
rinse  his  mouth  with  cold  water,  which  he  did  considerably 
longer  than  the  usual  time  of  the  flow  of  blood  in  such  cases, 
but  with  no  diminution  of  its  flow.  I  then  applied  tannin  on 
pledgets  of  moistened  cotton,  filling  the  socket  with  them. 
After  repeating  this  application  two  or  three  times,  the  bleeding 
ceased,  and  he  left.  In  about  three  hours  after,  he  returned, 
bleeding  as  profusely  as  ever.  I  then  filled  the  socket  from 
whence  the  tooth  came  with  cotton  saturated  with  perchloride  of 
iron.  This  I  repeated  several  times,  with  a  delay  of  a  few 
minutes  between  the  applications,  without  any  apparent  effect. 
I  next  applied  the  persulphate  of  iron,  full  strength,  in  the  same 
manner,  and  with  no  better  result.  Finally,  I  procured  some 
spider's  web,  with  which  I  filled  the  socket,  as  I  had  before  done 
with  the  cotton,  when — I  need  not  say  that  I  was  gratified  to 
see — the  bleeding  stopped  almost  immediately,  and  there  was  no 
more  recurrence  of  it. — Dental  Cosmos,  November,  1866. 
PILULiE  METALORUM.  ET  AMARUM. 
By  Humphrey  Peake,  M.  D.,  of  Yisalia,  California, 
Formerly  of  Yazoo  City,  Mississippi. 
I  propose  in  this  paper  to  make  known  to  my  professional 
eonfreres  the  formula  for  a  pill  which  I  have  been  using  for  the 
past  ten  years,  and  with  such  success  as  never  to  have  been  dis- 
appointed in  the  main  object — that  of  improving  the  quality  of 
the  blood.  In  plain  English,  I  call  it  a  blood  maker  ;  in  the 
.language  of  the  profession,  a  haematic;  of  the  class  Hsematica, 
of  Dr.  Headland.  I  have  named  it  "  Pilulee  Metalorum  et 
Amarum  " — pills  of  the  bitters  and  metals — for  a  reason  that 
any  doctor  may  readily  see.  Its  formula  is  as  follows: — 
B.      Quinise  sulphatis,  3j. 
Ferri  Redacti,  3jss. 
9  Strychnise. 
Acidi  Arseniosi,  aa  grs.  iij. 
Confectionis  Rosarum. 
Vel  Mucilaginis  Acacise. 
q.  s.  ut  ft.  pil.  lx. 
