To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir.-" Prcvention is better than cure." This old m2aximn or. curvel to nc the other ciay in reading the account of another indivi- dlual poisoned by oxalic acid, taken in mistake far Egpsom salts. Now I woild advise the public to have recourse to the (Id sicdinc, which had been used many years betbre lpcom salts were known- I mean Glaubcr's salts. It is only within about 20 years that the public have been in the liabit of' using Epsnsn salts and even as late as 18 years ago apothecaries have sold '.00 or 400 ounces of GlaUber's to OltC ounce of Epsom, the public scarcely knowing that there was such a medicine; and I believe the only reason wvhy they are now preferred is because they are more easilv dissolved, the fOr- mer requiring wvarm water for their solution, while the latter muay be dissA9ved in cold, the effectt2 of each being precisely the saine, while the appearance of Glauber's salts in a crystallized ustate is totalty lis. similar fronm any drug of a poisonous nature. I am. Sir. vour obedient himhle servant. P H AR.lACOPOILUS. TO TlfE EDITOR OF, TllE T1,AIE.S.