Medical Science.
Emetics have no offset on horses, which havo no {rail bladders to be aoted upon. A oase of bleeding through the sound skin is the subject of a European medical report.
The imperial cholera commission in Germany announces ite discovery that wine — claret or hock — will kill the bacilli of cholera in a few minutes. Tea will kill them in an hour.
All the motions and sensations of the various parts of the body are represented in the surface of the brain aB on a map. Thus there is a separate brain area necessary for sight, another for hearing, another for the motion of the fingers and so on.
Nutmegs have strong narcotic properties. A pint of tea made from two nutmegs, if drunk by an invalid, will produoe a sleep of many hours' duration. The symptoms will be about the same aa those occasioned by opium. Nutmegs in the quantity of two or throe drachms will cause both stupor and delirium.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 866, 2 December 1893, Page 6
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164Medical Science. Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 866, 2 December 1893, Page 6
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