LIQUOR LYTTJ2 IN SCORPION STING. TO THE EDITOR OF

"THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE."

gIK>?Scorpions are very numerous in Gurhwal, especially in some localities during the hot months of the year Their sting causes a great deal of pain, so much so that there have been instances of persons so stung, who not being able to endure tha pain, have committed suicide. I tried all the medicines prescribed for it in surgical works, such as turpentine, hot vinegar, rectified spirit, Eau de Cologne, &c., but found all of them useless I then tried Liquor Lyttao in one case, aud it gave iustautaneou

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I have since applied it in upwards of one hundred cases with success. A few days past, I was myself stung, and I found Liquor Lyttae highly efficacious. In my opinion, Liquor Lyttae decomposes the poison, forms a precipitate, and thus makes the poison inert. It might be tried iu snake poisoning too. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, Dwarka Nath Gupta,

Assistant-Surgeon.

Sreenuggur Dispensary, the 11th September 1874

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1874.