Arsenic In Wall-paper

This poison íb largo! y employed nu a ooloring in green paper. We teiáed i beautif ul sample the other day, and fourtd j in a square foot, thirty-scven and a-half grains oi' pnre arsenic. The leawt rubbing set f ree a cloudof creen dust, whieh was rank poison to inhale. A few weeks since a physieinn was asked to nee, in ' consutation, a brother medical man who j was dangerottsly ill of ervsipclas cf Ihc face and acalp. He liad only jnst í removed iuto a new luíase. On entering hifi eonsulting-room, the nnv comer ma stmck with bright green of the paper, mui aeked to have n piece uppliod to him. After some time thie was done, when he found, ou examinin.!: it, that it. &%M li" antisipated, aarsanioal. It is not ftssertotl that llic in' ly hang waU-paper had anythiagta.do mth the attack ; l:it the simi)le suggestion in ofEered, that, as tbs methode tor discovering arsenic are o simple and soaecni-ate, medical men should always take aaie to j guard tliemselvc.s, at least ; and, without mnch tronble, they mav guard tlieir patiënte also ogninst the risk of injury from this sourco. If, on burning some of the guspected paper in the center of the room, bo that the fumo;; oan be inhaled, tbe odor of gariie or anions is apparent, argenio is present, and the paper shouldbe -HctlVs Journal of Health. M. DorAUiiE, the .Minister of .Instico in MacMahon's Cabiiu t, getaup at three i v.'i'i moruing aiul goea at liis work. once accépfed on íuvilátio.n to a buil, réni ti' it, to i.i' !i:; tt-ord, foï ! half an hour he got vip aext ■ ing.