a patient, and that, judging from the composition of his letter, a patient of no extraordinary degree of intel¬ ligence or education. Strophanthus, again, is another drug that should not be prescribed except when its ef¬ fects can be under the observation of the physician. We say nothing of certain proprietary remedies, which ap¬ pear to have a great place in the prescriber's therapeutic armamentarium. The thing that strikes us most in this connection is the fact that these prescriptions,

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