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1801.] //• Ik Southern Confederacy. 771of hot countries, and that there is much doubt of its capacityof rendering any service in those of Europe. " Experimentswith several pretended substitutes for cinchona inthe Military Hospitals at Rome. By Dr. Felix Jacquot,hives Generates, June 1854 p. 678.) Abstract of aReport on Materia Medica, by Edward Ballard, M. D. Brit.ft For. Med. Chir. Rev. vol. xvi. p. 191.NITRIC ACID.Dr. George Mendenhail, of Cincinnati, called the attentionof the profession to the use of Kitric Acid in the treatment ofintermittent fever in 1854 : the facts upon which his paperwas based was chiefly derived from an Inaugural Dissertationby Dr. E. T. Bailey, of Indiana.Dr. Bailey states that inthe section of country in which liele8, there is a large portion of marshy land, and, therefore,the circumstances are favorable to the development of autumnalfevers. His attention was first attracted to the use ofnitric acid in the treatment of intermittent fevers, by noticingitseffects in a case of chronic intermittent, which was attendedwith pmfuse night sweats, and for which complication headministered the remedy. In this case there had been dailyparoxysms for the preceding five days; night BWeats profuse,the tongue coated, and the bowels constipated. Nitric acidwas given in doses of six drops, diluted with water in theevening; and he was agreeably surprised to find that theparoxysm.- did not return on the following day ; and this circumstanceinduced him to try its effects in other cases as ananti-periodic. Since that time he has treated over ninety- of intermittent fever with this article, with remarkablesuccess. Of this number, all recovered promptly except ten :and in every one of these unsuccessful r-a-es, the remedy wasdiscontinued contrary to directions.Fifteen of the whole number were of the tertian type, andnty-five of the quotidian. In fifty cases there was no returnof the chill after commencing the use of the acid. Theothers were rarely attended by more than one paroxysm, and