Nitro-Glycerine and Therapeutics.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1833, 5 April 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)

Nitro-Glycerine and Therapeutics.

The introduction of nitro-glycerine into therapeutics must naturally be regarded with uneasiness by every citizen interested ift the publio welfare. If the drug is cumulative, and there is no reason to suppose it is not, a month's treatment Trill undoubtedly so load tha patient up that ho will bt really dangerous to handle except with extreme cantion, and explosions of invalids may reasonably be expected to occur on tne streets at any tirtie. Fancy such items a<i the following appearing daily :

Terrific Explosion in HiohLife — Yesterday, at three p.m., as the Honorable Davis David, -who has been under nilro glycerine treatment for two year?, was chasing a crosatown car at Twenty-third Street and Broadway, he wa<? accidentally explo led bj oontact with the Hon. William E. ETarl?, who was coming in the opposing direction The concussion shattered every window in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and fragments of the honorable gentleman were kurled as far as One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Street, where they were subssquently found and identified. No assurance.

Grobs Catiklessne&s, — Late last evening, as Mr. Talboys was going into the Madison Square Theatre, ho was inconsiderately jostled by somo unknown porson and exploded. The fresco and stained-glasg windows were damaged to the extent of seven hundred dollars.

A Naw DBrAKTUitt. — Mr. O'Donovan Rossa, the patriot, who has bbeno e n a nilro glycerine drinker for aereral months, sailed yesterday on the Britannic. He proposes to visit the House of Loids and induce the janitor to club him. The result is awaited with lively interest. — The Aigavaut.