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 small public service which Hoffmann rendered when he, in whose judgment about such matters the people at large placed the greatest confidence, published such a clear and simple explanation of the real cause of these deaths as that which is given in this interesting monograph.

Hoffmann also added not a little to his fame by the invention of a remedy which was first known as "Hoffmann's drops," but which to-day appears in the United States Pharmacopoeia under the name of "Hoffmann's anodyne" or "spiritus aetheris compositus" (sulphuric ether, 325; alcohol, 650; ethereal oil, 25).