He mentions among others a case in which 12 drops of chloroform poured on a hand-kerchief, placed under the nose of a patient, not only caused the termination of a violent fit of hysteria, but also cured the patient who had previously had 4 or 5 fits per month, and which had never before yielded to any treatment.

Dr. Devergie, likewise tried chloroform in cutaneous diseases with great success: however, his conclusions are that this medicine, in diseases of the skin, is exactly similar to camphor; it is a sedative in itchings, and it has the advantage over camphor of acting on the nervous system in general by the atmosphere with which it surrounds the patient; it is even more sedative than camphor, but it has a less marked resolutive action on the skin. However it has scarcely appeared to be useful, except in papulous affections in which it is employed in the form of pommade in the proportion of 2 or 3 grammes to 30 grammes of lard.

PRESUMED POISONOUS EFFECTS OF GUANO.*

BY J. WEARNE, ESQ., HELSTON,

CORNWALL.

ON THE OXIDE OF SILVER AS AN AGENT FOR THE EXPULSION OF TAPE-WORM.*

BY H. T. WHITTELL, ESQ.

THE high price of Kousso as a vermifuge, and his success in two cases, have led Mr. Whittell to suggest the use of oxide of silver. He had occasion to prescribe as a remedy for menorrhagia, one grain of the oxide of silver three times daily, with an ounce of mixture containing six drachms of bitartrate of potassa in the half pint. The fourth dose was followed by the evacuation of a large quantity of tape worm, with which the lady had long been troubled; and she was better than she had been for months.

In the second case, the medicine was prescribed expressly to destroy the worm, and with similarly beneficial results.

PHILIP W-, aged sixty, a robust and industrious husbandman, required Mr. Wearne's attendance on the 1st June; found that from some cause he was suddenly attacked by a general tumefaction of the eyelids and lips, and with all the symptoms of the most acute quinsy, together with a total inability to articulate.

The general aspect of the man seemed to indicate that some animal poison had gained admission into the circulation. The tumefaction, under nitric acid and myrrh gargle, leeches and enemata, gave way by the third day sufficiently to enable the patient to tell, that two days previous to his attack he had been sowing guano in drills in his field, and that the wind blowing hard at the time, and the guano being light and dry, he had great difficulty in accomplishing his work, the guano so affecting his breathing as nearly to suffocate him.

On the fourth day symptoms of pneumonia set in, accompanied with extreme debility, and, in spite of the treatment usual in such cases, the patient quickly succumbed.

*The Lancet, June 29, 1850. VOL. I.

Second formula.

Valerianate of zinc.....
Valerianate of quinine..
Extract of quinquina..
Extract of gentian....
Extract of belladonna....

F. S. A. and mix to form 10 pills, which will then be silvered. One pill morning and evening in the case of continued neuralgia with irregular fits. In intermittent neuralgia, the two pills are given some hours apart, and the second administered five or six hours before the next attack is expected.

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Observations.-The first formula is only suited to continued neuralgia without exacerbation.

The second formula is useful in continued neuralgia with irregular attacks; experience has shown me that it succeeds perfectly likewise with regularly intermittent neuralgia, following the same rule as in the administration of sulphate of quinine.

*The Lancet, June 29th, 1850. + Repertoire de Pharmacie, July 1850.

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-, pure, new experimental
researches on the employment of,
conjointly with starch paste, for de-
tecting the presence of iodine in a
mineral water, by M. Casaseca,

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488

255

sulphuric, and bichromate of
potassa, on the action of a mixture
of on the fat oils, by M. Arzbächer, 497
, glucose and, on the action of on
organic substances, by M. Schultze 303
natural sources of, new
mode of manufacturing, by M.
Blondeau,

sulphurous, basic acetate of lead
and, on the combined use of, in
the colonial manufacture and the
refining of sugar, by Dr. Scoffern,
Acids, bromobenzoïc and chrysammic
and dulcose, note on, by M. A.
Laurent,

and ethers, certain, and certain
homologous bases, on the relation
which exists between the composition
and the form of, by J. Nickles,

hydrosulphuric and sulphurous,
on the products of the decomposition
of in water, by Signori Sobrero and
Selmi,
of the series C17H11Ỏ, on the
separation of some, by Professor
Liebig,

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76

354

63

301

339

sulphurous, and hydrosulphuric,
products of the decomposition of, in
water, by Signori Sobrero and Selmi, 301
Adulteration of drugs and chemicals :-

separation of phosphoric acid

from, by Professor Rose,
Aluminous schists, presence of iodine
in

Amalgam, copper, on a, by Dr. M.
Pettenkofer,

Amidulin, a modification of starch, by
M. Schultze,

Ammonia, citrate of iron modified by,
M. J. B. Depaire,

new compounds analogous

to, report on a memoir by M. Wurtz
relative to, by MM. Thenard, Chev-
reul, and Dumas,

on some new combinations
of with the ferrocyanide of nickel, by
Senor Alvaro Reynoso,
Ammonias, the compound investiga-
tions concerning, by M. A. Wurtz,
Anæsthetic action of protochloride of
carbon and Dutch liquor, by Senor
Alvaro Reynoso,

agents, see agents anæsthetic,
carbon, chloroform, ether, &c.

100

342

257

66

20

40

56

391

agent, new, by M. Rames, 283
Animal and vegetable kingdoms, on the
adjustment of the relations between,
by which the vital functions of both
are permanently maintained, obser-
vations on the, by Robert Warington,
Esq., F.C.S.,
Animal, increase of, per week for each
100 lbs. of live weight, and food,
consumption of, as recorded by
various observers, table showing,
Antimonial Sturms, means of distin-
guishing arsenical from, by H. Rose, 475

277

BALSAMS of Peru and Tolu, on, by

on the production of ethers
by the action of potassa, by Pro-
fessor E. A. Scharling,

Baryta, chlorate of, extemporaneous
preparation of, with remarks on its
importance in chemical investiga-
tions, by M. Damberger,

salts, strontia, and, the beha-
viour of before the blow-pipe, by
Dr. Sheridan Muspratt, F.R.S.E.,
Bases, on the action of on salts, and
especially on the arsenites, by Senor
Alvaro Reynoso,

Battery, fifth communication on the.
Some new experiments on charcoal.
Lengths of the voltaic arch, by M.
C. Despretz,

285

492

132

9, 54

326

101

446

65

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Caseïn, employment of, as an envelope
for medicines, by M. Joseau,
Cathartin, the bitter principle of ripe
buckthorn berries, by Dr. F. Winckler 424
Cemeteries, vaults and, on the poison-
ous gases of,

Cerebral substance, dried, medico-legal
researches on, by M. Orfila,
Charcoal, some new experiments on.
Fifth communication on the battery.
-Lengths of the voltaïc arch, by
M. C. Despretz

Chemistry, organic, studies of, direc-
ted to physiological and medical
applications, by M. E. Millon,

the Royal college of, Liv-

erpool,
Chlorates of the alkaline and earthy
bases, and chloric acid, economical
preparation of

Chlorides, alkaline, on the action of
chlorine on the metallic chlorides, in
the presence of, by Signori Sobrero
and Selmi,

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522

383

201

89

526

345

441

438