Issue 10, pp. 753-832, October 1861, SMSJ

•and1861.] Remedies of thi Southern Corfederaey. 773territory, in the post hospital, then under my charge, In aweeks in the summer. Upon referring to theable, it will be seen that in all, forty-one cases were treated,on of those being of the quotidian typo, and thirty-one of' tfie[ertian.Thirty-two cases were treated with the nitric acid, and ninewith tlie sulphate of quinia. Of the cases cured by nitricacid, three had previously used quinine without effect}and ofthose in which quinine had proved successful, nitric acid hadbeen employed without benefit in two, and in one other hadto he omitted on account of causing nausea, heartburn, etc.The average period of treatment before the disease waspermanently arrested, was the same witli cacli remedy—threedays. The nitric acid was uniformly given in doses f tenJrops (properly diluted with water) three times per day, theJninine in dose- of eight grains three times a day.Besides the fact that the nitric acid was equallysuccessfulwith quinine in arresting the disease, the difference in the costW the two articles rreatly in favor of the former Bubkanceas to render it an object of importance to make itscurative properties more widely known.going cases were treated, I have very frequentlyemployed nitric acid inthe treatment of intermittentid have rarely been disappointed in my expections ofaction. In fact, in simple uncomplicated internt,I seldom have occasion to use anything else,[n ncnt of the spleen, consequent upon frequentattacks of the ague, the remedy in question has, in mylands, proved very advantageous."Tli ly that nitric acid is avaluable substitute \'->v quinine; and we can readilyby a v powerful alterative effecmercury, that it would be beneficialin remittent, typhoid and typhilfi f