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 sisam Doctors. The Rev. John M Gray. of Z. C., 3 clergyman of some re speetability and promise. lately fell a vic tim to the practice of these miserable quacks. His death was oceasipned by ta- king dose of Lobelia from one of these steamers, not because he was unwel, but to experience the operation of the medicine, He had been in the habit, 1t seems, of ad- mihistering the medicine, and desired to know its effects, before he dealt any more ef il to others.

 We have few of these sieom quacEs in this and inc adjacent counties, but our cifi- zens have learned tand some of them by sud experience, to place no confidence ia them.

 In noticing this melancholy incident, the Southern Christian Herald offers the fol- lowing remarks on the nature of LobeIia

 e have noticed this case, hoping that 1t viii serve as q warning to the public against the danger of encouraging,taen 10 administer drugs, with inc properties of which they are wholly unacquainted. To give LobeIia as aainnocent medicine, which might be taken merely for experiments sake, proves how grossly ignorant this nos trum maker was of its properties. The Lobelia Fnflata Is one of the most active medicines of the North American Matera Medica. Itis possessed of an emetic, su- doifie, and powerful expectorant effect When given with view to empty the stom- ach, t operates vehemently and speedily; producing, however, great relaxation, de- bility and perspiration, and even death, If given in over doses.

 The LobeIia Longihora, a native of some of the West India islands, is one of the most venomous plants. It is fatal to hors- es- swells them till they burst. Taken internally, ii operates as a violent cathartic, the effects of which no remedy can as- suage, and which ends in death. Vide, iindiey1s Botany, p. Isa-5. Such are the medicines with which qoackery makes innocent. experiments This, we thlnk, Is sporting with life. These remarks may, perhaps, give offence to some; but if they can be instrumental in saving human life, we shallscare very little who may be of tended.n