LTHOUGH the modern Materia Medica includes many valuable remedies for human afflict of certainty that in all cases where the animal vitality is failing, Phosphorus decidedly superior to every other remedy at present known. It will work effects such as nothing else will produce, and it posscates the great advantage of not cansirc, when ils use la relinquished, th ixltest reaction or deprenai The question natural Why is 60 valuable an regarded und so seldom prescribed 1 The only answer which can be given is:—That a certain difficulty haa been found in 80 preparing that its action may be kept under perfect control.
Hitherto it has been used d olive oils, in sulphuric ether, in rectified alcohol, in chloroform, and in several other substances; but, however valuable it has been found in all the hitherto known methods of its preparation, certain irregular results have been experienced, which have led physicians to neglect it for purposes, and to employ it only in extreme cases, and after every other remedy has failed. But a chemical process has now been discovered, by which its invaluable action on the human system may be realised t any of thoee drawbacks which previous modes of administration have invariably produced.
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