The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1856.

Resoluta at Jena, and yet maintained hie oomumal-'
cations with the Danube on the south and with
Prams towards the west. In the Crimes, indeed, the
Russians have been compelled • by eireumstseep to
occupy their present position became their 4)1411
I was to defend Sebastopol ; but essaredly Lase
mama why the principles if strategy iaaP-
plicable to the owe. It le Ade" there
near
whilst the right of the allied shay posted near the
Salgir (the largest river in the Crimea) would gra-
dually clam up the road to Parekop and the Tahonger
road, the only way in which the allied communi-
cations could be interrupted would be by a flank
march of the Russians to the mouth of the Hara-Su
Bazar, or by a direct attack in front. The dangers
of a flank march are proverbial sinoe the days of
Salamanca and Austerlitz, and the perils of a fair
fight in the open field are perils which the Allies
have hitherto courted in vain; but should the move-
meat we have indicated mooted, it is hardly neces-
sary to point oat that, as in the eme of General
MACK, the Russian army most be either taken or
annihilated.

TO TER 3DITOIL

Bm—A physiciiii,Vrio;nTiTesd not name, was
the other day suddenly summoned to the bedside of
a goothiman who was thought to be us reireinit. On
arriving at the house he hand two other medical
attendants, who had been unable to grapple, to their
own satisfaction, with the hemi symptoms
which the patient exhibited, and were therefore de-
sirous of a third opium. My friend found the pa-
cket in great pain, hie face swell's, his eyes forced
out in horrible convexity, and glaring with an unna-
tural brightness.
The first idea this spectacle 'initiated was poison
--an idea previously entertained by the practitioners
already in act/adobes. A consultation took place,
sod antidotes for vegetable poison being adminis-
tered, it wee agreed that a strict investigation should
at once be set on foot. It was ascertained that the
patient had been in the habit of drinking ash-leaf tea
—the only beverage of which the rest of the family
did sot usually partake—and some of it was pro-
deeed. The family medical attendant incautiously
drank halt a wine-glass of it, and was very noon
seized with symptoms similar to those under which
the patient laboured, and which were sow discovered
to resemble the usual results of belladonna. Testa
for that poison were immediately applied with soo-
ore, mad then powerful remedies given, both to the
original patient and to the now one, for that special
ponce. After a severe struggle, both podiums gra-
dually recovered.
It appeared that the ash-leaves bad been applied
far at a herbalist's shop, which the plarrician visited i
endow asking for some more ash-leaves, a paper bag
weepredemd from a eerier. It was without label orally
MONS of estiogslider the sentents from those of
the husdrad dist paper begs that were lying about.
He Inisissi whether his paths& had hem supplied
from thst Iwo and was answered In the alliterative.
He from
the leaves, and famed them to be leaves
of the hsilsilsnua phial
Pubes atomism sontot be too strongly drawn to
this feet, and thrillers I am desirous of publishing it
in your widely simulated solemn& In this country
herb-shops are universally kept by persons in no way
qualified to deal with the dangerous and deadly
of many of the drugs they aell. It fortu-
nately that, in the peeesat instanos,the Yin good
circumstances, and was, therefore, able to ware the
best molisal treatment in the ppeaassm memner i but
I wish it enighWeAlly to he eisr. that Iherbehops
ahomd in pose sediesde. and that hose are
Maly the medidess of the peer, taken and odmiais-
tssod sad Igneemtly. Ia sash mess it is
impemilde to detect mistakes. Deaths
my esear—and I venture to add do salwr.--ammest
the humbler Mese% of which we hem making, awd
the origin of whisk, if thoroughly Mustigated,
' might be traced to some poisonous herb ha& from
a herh-shop
Ia lams, and I believe all over the continent, no
mesa Co allowed to sell herbs who le not duly quell-
led to de se by previous study of medical botany.
Every lerlosellw is bound to undergo an maim-
tine, mmd emeat apes. Wm without a licence and
certified's@ of his abElity to dispense vegetable medi-
cines with salleisat accuracy and care to prevent
disaster.

lime a law is more hortatively called for in this
osentry dim I vesture to assert, air perms out
of M espesielly in the direly populated
disteists, when medicol quackery aad
MANI sarntitise take disastrous effect ars the
wedding eisessmaidely through the 'medium of herbs
sad berbelbas,
Finally, I de blip that amidst the storm of profes-
sional *quibble whisb always arise whomever medi-
ates is legislated for, the important and dangerous
Blowy enjoyed by ignorant herbalists to pare the
publis by assidemt will, in the next bill for regale-
dog tbe rmdesef ssedicins, be ellestually abated, if
aot abods—l OMEGA.