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

l.] /;«//. )j Southern Confederacy, WOAr& nic in th>Fngranesa nt and /?< mdttent Fevere.— In five3 it was observed that in spite of and during the employment of arsenic, the simple fever became aggravated remittent,sub-continued and pernicious a fortiori, then, thismedicine would have no action npon a fever already of thischaracter.>-.— Arsenic is not for a moment to be regardeda^ a substitute for sulphate of quinine. It will probably finda limited place in the treatment of indigenous intermittentfevers, but it has absolutely no pretensions against the recentendemo-epidemic fevers of hot countries. We are scarcelyauthorized to employ it except in the fevers which resist allthe preparations of bark.Uncertainty and contradiction reignover almost all points relative to arsenic. It is a medicinewhich we cannot yet handle with the double certainty of obtainingthe effect desired, and of avoiding the dangers connectedwith its administration."These results of the carefnl observations of M. Jaequot, arcworthy of most carefnl consideration by the physicians of theSouth, on account of the similarity of the heldof experimentwith a large portion -o/ the South; and they are especiallyworthy of most careful examination, from their antagonism tothe most astonishing results which M. Bondin, of Paris, claimst have accomplished with arsenic in the treatment of intermittentfever.M. Boudin affirms that in 4,000 cases of intermittentfever treated with arsenic, in the hospitals of Marseil!ailles and Paris, from 1843 to 1851, he had nothad occasion to resort in a >ingle instance to sulphate of quinine;and out of 311 cases treated at Versailles in a period of39 months, If. Boudin had but 10 relapsIt may well be asked whether the intermittent fevenPar [lies do not differ greatly in B