ers of which give out to the public that each fluid
drachm contains 15 grains of chloral hydrate, or 1 ounce to
every 4 ounces of bromidia.

SULPHONAL:--"Sulphonal is a coal tar preparation, and is
valuable in medicine as an hypnotic only. An ordinary dose to
produce sleep is from 10 to 40 grains. If it is given in these
doses for several days in succession it produces great
weariness, an unsteady gait, and may involve paralysis of the
lower limbs, with great disturbance of digestion, and scanty
secretion of urine of about the color of port wine. There are a
number of cases of death reported as resulting from acute, or
chronic poisoning, by sulphonal.

PHENACETINE:--"Phenacetine is a product of coal tar, and an
antipyretic, a drug that lessens the temperature in high fevers,
and rapidly disintegrates the blood.

ANTIFEBRIN:--"Antifebrin, another of the coal tar preparations,
is the registered name for acetanelid. Its effects are very
similar to the effects of phenacetine, and it is used in fevers
for lessening the temperature, and for neuralgic pains. The
medicinal dose is from 3 to 10 grains. Unpleasant effects follow
its continued use, such as great exhaustion, blueness of the
lips, and a slow, labored pulse.

HEADACHE REMEDIES:--"The indiscriminate use of the many coal tar
products and other hypnotics, such as sulphonal, phenacetine,
antifebrin, chloral, bromidia, etc., under the guise of headache
remedies is productive of much disaster, all being nerve
paralyzants."

The public owe a debt of gratitude to those physicians, and chemists,
who give freely such valuable information as to the real nature and
effects of dangerous drugs. While it is true that the popular belief in
drugging is due to professional practice, yet it is also true that what
the people know of the preservation of health, and of the danger of
alcohol and other drugs is largely owing to the medical profession.
There is as much difference among the members of the medical profession
as there is among the members of any profession; some are careless,
selfish, unprincipled, unobservant of the effects of various medicines;
while others are anxious to teach the people how to avoid sickness, and
gain strength. It is the latter class who warn against the self
prescription of drugs, especially those of the dangerously seductive,
narcotic class.

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