"Ode to Health;

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medicines, exhibits the same buffy crust with blood
drawn from a person laboring under ???, and the
secretions from the skin or from the kidneys are greatly increased." James Hamilton. M.D. Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians, and Professor of Midwifery
in the University of Edinburgh.
The following is from Prof. Barton of Louisiana.
"I shall be glad to see any thing else take the place of
calomel, after witnessing, as I have for the last sixteen
years, its horrid effects, in the wreck of constitutions,
the destruction of teeth, gums, jaws and faces, ???.
Do search for something less misschevious, if it is only
a tomato." Dr J. Gates in Truth Teller.
"Mercury placed on the shelf in a bowl in a
warm room, will salivate the inmates, in a few weeks,
even at a moderate temperature." ???.
"In 1810, the Triumph man of war and Phipps schooner received on board several tons of quicksilver, saved from
the wreck of a vessel near Cadiz. In consequence of
the rolling of the bags the mercury escaped, and the whole
of the crews became more or less affected. In the space
of three weeks two hundred men were salivated, two
died, and all the animals - cats, dogs, sheep, fowls, a canary

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