To the Editor:
—Mr. L. presented himself at my office about 3 P. M. on August 14, informing me that he had taken some horse medicine, and upon examining my patient I found the most cyanotic subject that I ever had the misfortune of treating, showing a livid tint of the skin resembling the tint of asphyxia, and complaining of general weakness, pain near the heart, a soreness beneath the sternum, with a beating pain passing from temple to temple, while to assume the erect position caused giddiness, increasing the cyanotic hue and a stinging pain in the eyes, while to assume the recumbent position gave him freedom from all suffering. Patient had no nausea or vomiting, but body was bathed in perspiration, respiring thirty times per minute, and a pulse of 110.The medicine was taken about 5 A.M., producing in thirty minutes a form of intoxication and desire