Advances in the Therapeutics of Antimony

the history of therapeutics. It has always managed, to use a modern expression, to get 'into the news'' and has displayed an unusual ability to stir human passions; it has been lauded to the skies a^ a cure for all ills, and it has been banned by parliamentary edict; it has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands, and has been a favourite medium of the murderer; it has brightened the eyes of Jebezel, and it has helped to empty the stomach of a surfeited Nero. It has also made a complete slave of one of the world's great chemists, Professor Hans Schmidt, but it can with equal truth be said that it has been completely mastered by him. For many years Professor Schmidt has lived and thought of nothing but antimony; in his home he is surrounded by antimony in the hundreds of forms in which it occurs in nature, and in his laboratory he ha? toiled day and night, like the alchemists of olden times in their search for the elixir of life, to find the most perfect preparation of antimony, so that to-day the shelves around his laboratory walls are lined with hundreds of different chemical combinations of this