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Credit: Mr. Liston on the respiration of sulphuric ether. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![than sheep saffron and barn-yard pouUices to suit the taste of tlie present generation. If we cure diseases by conjuration which they encountered with the awful Ust of pills, potions and plasters ; why not ? We can even quote precedent for our practices. There was a famous pill, cele- brated in Pindaric verse, which, with your permission, I will copy. '- A bninpkiii canio ni'iona^ the rest. And llius tlie man of pill aLldressed : ' Zur, hcariiiij what is come lo pass, Tliat your line pill liath cured the king, And able to do cverythins;, D'ye think, zur. t'vvill make me find my ass ? I've lo^t my ass. zur, zo siiould like to try it j If th,s be your opinion, zur, I'll buy it.' ' Undoubtedly ' ! the quack replied, ' Yes, master Hob. it should be tried J Then down Hnb's gullet, cure or kill, 'I'he j^rand impostor pushed the pill. Hob paid his lee. and off he went j And travelling on about an hour, His bowels sore with pains were rent; Such was the pill's suprising power, No longer able to eojitain. Hob iji a hurry left the lane— And sought the grove—where Hob's two eyes, Wide staring, saw with huge surprise His long-eared servant Jack, his ass !! ' Adzooks ! a lucky pill!', quoth Hob ■, ' Yes, yes. the pill hath done the job.' Gloloules [remarks again my crusty friend] have discovered more asses in these times than did Pindar's pills ; and, what is stranger, all are affected with the mange, the itch, or—something worse ! But, my good sir, this is not the fault of the system of Hahnemann. That fact does not condemn, by any means, the sugar of milk ; only the mal-practice, and filthy habits of the times. We must do penance, in mercury and sulphur, for past peccadilloes, and thank God if this is the nearest acquaintance we are destined to have with brimstone. Allopathy has done nothing more (we are told) in 2500 years, than to discover these two specifics, and homcEopathy, forsooth, must teach her to employ these properly ! It remains to be seen what the Young Physic, recently born under Dr. Forbes's obstetric management, will accomplish. Until then, with an apology for the length of this straggling epistle, allow me to subscribe myself, with great respect. Your ob't servant, Lexington, Ky., Nov. lith, 1846. Old Physic. ETHEREAL GAS IN RUTLAND COUNTY, VERMONT. To the Editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Sir,—This great patent pain preventor has made its appearance arnon<T us, under the superintendence and special direction of two very respecta- ble members of the medical faculty in this county, as wholesale and retail dealers, with power to sell individual and township-rights to those whom they may deem worthy or qualified to take charge of this curious and * important article—said to be the result of a tedious and tried investigation of Dr. Morton & Co. Truly, sir, this is an age of invention and improve-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21015648_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
