ANTIDOTE TO CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE. 
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thus an antidote for corrosive sublimate, as efficient as the hy- 
dra ted sesquioxide of iron for arsenic. 
While on this subject, I may mention that I have just 
witnessed another proof of the efficacy of the latter article. 
A child, eighteen months old, ate some bread and butter, on 
which arsenic had been thickly spread for rats; he was at a 
distance from the city, and the iron was not procured for 
two hours after the poison had been taken. He is now re- 
covering without a bad symptom. In this case the freshly 
prepared article was procured by Mr. Procter, in eight mi- 
nutes from the time he received the order, by precipitating 
from a solution of the persulphate of iron by ammonia, as 
recommended by him in his paper published in the Journal 
of the College of Pharmacy, and in the Medical Examiner, 
for this year, p. 295. 
Medical Examiner, October S, 1842. 
