POTASH IN SCURVY.

SOlt POTASH-POTASH INVESTIGATION-POTASH DEFICIENCIES

It is in this connection that it becomes very difficult at times for the agricultural scientist and practical agriculturist to meet on common ground, for very often a popular version of scientific reasoning may appear ambiguous, and in this case it would appear better to sacrifice the facile version (since the layman can always get an interpreter to explain if he is sufficiently interested) tha...

Caustic Potash in the Treatment of Carbuncle

plaint. For, no sooner is it known that the doctor has pronounced some old gentleman to be suffering from a carbuncle, than the friends of the latter would assuredly hint at haviug his " affairs set in order." Statistics, however, do not show the apprehension to be well grounded, and neither have I in my small experience observed the mortality, amongst those who have suffered from it, to be so ...

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People write to ask me if the dose is to be half a drachm or half an ounce, so it is as well to say half an ounce unmistakably, or the drug might fall into undeserved disrepute. I am asked if the patients whose swollen legs I describe may not have been suifering from Beri-beri. I believe not. The cases yielded readily to the usual antiscorbutic treatment, while Beri-beri requires turpentine.