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  2. MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

    An impression being prevalent that the warm bath makes those who use it liable to take cold, the committee for promoting the establishment of baths and washhouses have published a certificate to the ...

    Article : 52 words
  3. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS.

    The Editors wish it to be distinctly understood that although it is their desire that this Journal should freely express the opinions of their correspondents, they (the Editors) are net to he considered as responsible for their ...

    Article : 59 words
  4. MRS. BOWDEN, AND THE FEMALE FACTORY OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

    We quote from the London Times a case where a young woman was tried at the Middlesex Sessions, last May, before Mr Serjeant Adams, Assistant Judge. The prisoner pleaded guilty to baying ...

    Article : 1,379 words
  5. COPPER SMELTING.

    Gentlemen—It is surprising that the attention of our mining proprietary is not more steadily directed to the undoubted feasibility of smelting their copper and lead ores in the colony. It is reported that" the ...

    Article : 289 words
  6. INCOME OF MFTROPOLITAN SURGEONS.

    At the last return under the Income-tax Act, no fewer than 30 surgeons practising in London admitted that their professional earnings amounted to £10,000 per annum each; and of these three were upwards of £20,000 each ...

    Article : 42 words
  7. THE ECONOMY OF GLASS IN A LABORATORY.

    An expert and careful chemist will throw no pieces of glass away. The feet of test-glasses, wine-glasses, &c., will be found admirably adapted for the purpose of covering solutions put aside for a time in small ...

    Article : 218 words
  8. USE OF BREAKFAST TO THE BILIOUS.

    A certain amount of bilious congestion seems to be natural in the morning. That the bile is periodically stored up, might be inferred from the anatomical structure of the liver, which has not only its system ...

    Article : 238 words
  9. PUNISHMENT FOR THE ILLEGAL PRACTICE MEDICINE.

    M. Vaissiere, a retired jeweller, has been prosecuted for enjoying what he calls an infallible specific for disper[?]ing " cold humours." Having effected the miraculous cure of a scrofulous girl. he has since ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. THE PLANET VENUS.

    Gentlemen—At this time the planet Venus is an interesting object, not only shining in the West after sunset, with a brilliancy that will give a shadow in the absence of the moon: but even at midday is ...

    Article : 114 words
  11. LADIES' STAYS.

    A death from personal vanity occurred a few days ago at Monts, near Caen. The servant of a widow lady went to bed apparently in perfect health, but in the morning was found lifeless. A physician was ...

    Article : 107 words
  12. ANOTHER IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

    A German paper says that Professor schonbem, the inventor of gun cotton, has succeeded in preparing a fluid which may be put to the same use in surgery as vapour of ether. This preparation ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. THE CURRANT VINE.

    Gentlemen—In my last communication to you on the cultivation of the currant vine, as practised in Zante and Cepalonia, I promised you an extension of the subject, as to the mode of cultivating the currant ...

    Article : 2,222 words
  14. A ROUGH METHOD OP VENTILLATION.

    Dr Gregory, of Edinburgh, in visiting the poor, used often to begin his prescriptions by breaking a pane or two of the window with his walking stick, which he made good again at the end of the illness. ...

    Article : 43 words
  15. SEASONABLE WARNING TO SURGEONS AND OTHERS.

    The Journal des Debats, in an article on the effects produced by the inhalation of the vapour of ether, says—" It is useful to remind those who surrender themselves unreservedly to experiments of this ...

    Article : 326 words
  16. SECRET POISONING IN ENGLAND.

    That the crime of secret poisoning has of late years been greatly upon the increase on the Continent and in this country, is a fact which might be readily proved by statistical evidence. The perusal of the ...

    Article : 478 words
  17. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 430 words
  18. THE PEOPLE'S PETITION AGAINST SECRET POISONING.

    At a meeting of Hygeists, hold at the British College of Health, New-road, London, on the 18th day of January, 1847, Mr John Fraser, of South Bridge, Edinburgh, in the chair, the following ...

    Article : 419 words
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