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ignorance, Bantig .histry, scholzstic bigotry, mysterious

absurdities, and destructive prejudices, charactrizing the те-

dical dynasty of the present аде.

March 1

1839.

New-York.

Р. S. In reference to the dog which we inoculated, and

which escaped the infection evidently by а self-counteraction

from within, we were not permitted to proceed апу farther

by the people of the house, who, eitber from sympathy or

excessive fears for themselves, removed secretely the animal

out of our reach and held obstinately against all attempts to

rgrrew the experiment.

N. В. The news has just reached ns that 0rfIa, celebrated

italian chemist and physician, had made the and de-

monstrated its truth before the academy of M)ience, that arse-

nic not destroy life by апу chemical action the coat

of the stomach, as is generally believed, but by its absorption

into the bbod itself. If so, and I think his experiments are

conclusive, what becomes 0f the pst mortem medicaI examtna-

tions, detecttng arsenic in the stomach 0f а tH)dy that ns

disea.sed and lay burried for weeks before?

What becomes of the validity of the testimony, thus

ostentationsly given, оп which several persons in this and in

other places, have been condemned and executed for the suppo-

sed murder! Trnly does «the healing art» it пот predo-

minates is «the art of killing»!

1516.

Вилламовъ гр. Мордвинову.

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