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and  acting  at  the  same  time,  to  some  extent,  upon  the  conducting  nerves 
and  muscles. 
5.  It  depresses  the  heart's  action,  both  in  force  and  frequency,  but  the 
period  of  depression  is  followed  by  one  of  reaction,  its  primary  cardiac 
action  being  independent  of  its  spinal  influences." 
"  Dr.  Wood  corroborates  the  statement  of  Charles  Bullock,  that  the 
purified  resin  of  veratrum  viride  has  no  influence  on  the  circulation,  and 
is  probably  inert. 
The  Half -Yearly  Abstract  of  the  Medical  Sciences,  being  a  digest  of 
British  and  Continental  medicine,  and  the  progress  of  medicine  and  the 
collateral  sciences.  Edited  by  William  Domett  Stone,  M.D.,  F.R.C.S. 
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annum  ;  single  volumes,  $1.50. 
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The  Chemists^  and  Druggists'  Almanac  and  Pharmaceutical  Text  Book, 
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Connar  St.,  E.  C. 
This  well  gotten  up  "almanac"  is  received  from  the  publishers  of  the 
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is  neatly  bound  in  cloth  and  full  of  information,  legal  and  professional, 
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