AMONG the energetic substances which the inf dustry and sagacity of continental chemists have extracted from various articles of the Materia Medica,and upon which the peculiar properties ofthese appear to depend, none have hitherto been turned to any medical purpose in their separate state, I believe, except the Hydrocyanic Acid, Iodine, Morphina, Emetina, and some of those which are furnished by Cinchona. An account of the pro. perties of Strychnina, Veratrina, Hyoscyamina, and other alkaline substances procured from vegetable narcotics, is to be found, not in works upon the practice of medicine, but in Orfila's Treatise upon Poisons, or in similar writings of experimental physiologists. The Hydrocyanic Acid VOL. XII. 0 0 * After the extraction of the Quinina, the yellow bark is as tasteless as so much wet sawdust ; and I presume the same is the case with the pale, after the extraction of the Cinchonina, and with the red after the extraction of both.
Case of Amputation of a Leg Above the Knee, Without Pain, in the Mesmeric State: Description of the Case
‘I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.’
—m. g. lewis
‘Le vrai n’est pas toujours vraisemblable.’
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