Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-06-29

COMMISSIONS, eplepsies, herce cataI Ihs,
Intestine siOne and ulcer, cholc pangs,
Denoui,c frenzy, moping melancholy,
And moon struck madness. pinins atrophy,
MaTasnus, aud wide wasting pestilsnce
Dropsies, and usthmns, and j'int racting rheum-.
DR.. Turner stated before the jury that he
administered Nitre to Capt. Wise, but said
nothing Of Calomel. In his written statement
he gave calomel, but says nothing Of nitre-
NJ. P. Orfla, the author already quoted. says
that "Nitre is venomous both to man &; animal,
even when applied to wounds. 1t gives rise
to bloody vomitings,to an active inflammation
OF the stomach. We ought particularly to
observe that it affects the nervous SYSTEM
often occasioning intoxication, palsy Of the
limbs, commissions and other nervous Diseases
DR.. Samuel Thomson the founder of Thorn
sonism says, 81 have found from series of
practical experiments for many years, that
salt -pctre has the most certain and deadly ef
tects upon the human system, Of any drug
that is used as medicine, although the effects
produced by it are not so Immediately fatal
as many others, yet its whole tendency is to
coun,eract the principles of life and destroy
the operation Of nature. Experience has
tnught me that il is the most powerful enemy
to health, and that it is the most difficult ep-
ponent to encounter, with any degree Of sue
cess, that have ever met with"
OfCalomel need say but little more than
that it is superceding the use of ratsbane for
the poisoning of rais.-"A very small quanti-
ty only is requisite and is thought superior to
arsenic"
Shortly after Capt. Wise came to the IN
frmary, he was asked if he had been taking
calomeI-to the question, he replied "No."-
But it appears the Captain was mistakcn,and
so it was suspected at the time. 1t is now
admitted by Dr.. Turner that he administered
caloimel to Capt. Wise. If the Captain had
been opened, calomel would have been look
ed for in the intes,ines, where, it is not i'm
probable it was lodged, and modification in
dnced by its poison.
Mineral poisons corrode and destroy the
functions Of the stomach and bowels and
Thomsonian practitioners always find far
more difficulty in expelling the poisons so a
bnndantly administered MS medicines by the
old practice, than in catirg the disease
itself. Lobelia and the vapor bath combined
is the only remedy yet discovered which can
eflectually drive out mercurial and other poi
sons from the system. Even hydrophobia is
no longer an incurable maady. Indisputa-
bic facts are in my possession which prove it
to have Welded to the powerful and active
virtues Of the Vupor Bath and Lob,lia.
But it is not to the Vapor Bath and Lobela
alone, that Thomsopisu, is confined. Its "Ma-
terra Medica" comprises n great many other
potent and hcalthful remedies, extracted from
innocuous vegetables which are always more
or less administered with or without the Lo-
belia-but in old chronic diseases, woven
throughout the flesh and homes by mercury
and other poisons, and always incurable by
the old practice, there are no thoroughly ef-
fectual remedies without Steam and Lobeiia.
CHARLES GARDNER,
Botanic Physician.