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  2. FACETIAE.

    A respectable clergyman informs us, that being recently in the vicinitv of Middletown, Monmouth county, iu this State, he embraced the opportunity to visit, in company with two other clerical ...

    Article : 621 words
  3. MEDICAL NEWS.

    As interesting paper on the Acanu Scabiei or the iteb iaseet, by Dr Borgess, waa Uteiy read before the ReyeJ llodieal aad Chirurgical Society, detailiag experiments receatly eoadueted by him with reference to the ...

    Article : 152 words
  4. EFFECTS OF WORKING AMONGST DISEASED

    About four months ago we mentioned the circumstance of three individuals whose hands, more or less, it was supposed, bad beeu poisoned by comiup into contact with the diseased potatoes. At that time we stated ...

    Article : 147 words
  5. AN INCURABLE MALADY, OR THE FACULTY AT FAULT.

    A certain great lady (said Sir William Temple) cause to Dr aXojeaa at ouch distress about her daughter; and the physieiaa eegaa the mvestigatioa of the same by asking. Why what [?] she "Alas, doctor. ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. VEGETABLE GROWTHS IN THE HUMAN SKIN.

    It has been recently discovered that several diseases of the skin owe their peculiar character to the growth of fungi or cryptogamic plants ia that texture. M. Gruby, of Vienna, describes a species of cryptogatnia which ...

    Article : 133 words
  7. A CLEVER DOG STORY.

    In several of the States a tax is levied on the dogs, per capita, which tax is appropriated to the payment of losses sustained by farmers in sheep killed by dogs. As the money does not go into the general fund, ...

    Article : 483 words
  8. FRENCH REWARDS TO MEDICAL MEN.

    The Royal Academy of Seieae^ Paris, have just awarded to M. Amusat '.heir first prize in medicine aad surgery, of £60, for his researches on wounds of the vascular system. Dr Bo[?]t, of Lyons, received the ...

    Article : 199 words
  9. APPLICATION OF LEECHES.

    The following method of facilitating the application of leeches is recommended by Dr Reim. Let the leeches be put into a bottle filled with good beer, leaving them there until they seem to become lively. After they have ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DROWNING.

    If a small animal be immersed in water in a transparent glass vessel, the phenomena of drowning- are readily observable. There is first a deep expiration by which bubbles of air are expelled from the lungs. There is ...

    Article : 388 words
  11. SURGICAL OPERATIONS ON A MESMERIC PATIENT.

    The New York Herald thus reports an operation performed on a coloured servant girl. aged about thirtythree years:—The girl, before being magnetised, was sitting in a chair with her head lying forward upon a ...

    Article : 287 words
  12. VACCINATION.

    In the twelth report of the Poor-law Comamsioaers Gust made eat!*) it appears that the progress of vaoci[?] in England in the year ended the 29th of Sept. last was highly satisfactory, there having been 362.037 ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. A " MILLERITE" MIRACLE.

    In a little village in the State of Hoosierana, in the year 1844, there were all sorts of excitemeut concerning the doctrines and prophecies of the arch deceiver, Miller. For months the Midnight ...

    Article : 1,002 words
  14. OPTHALMIA.

    We learn by a recent report te the Egyptian government on the [?] d[?] of the country, by Dr P[?], the French physican at the head of the military hospital at Casre, that out of every 80 [?] 5 only ...

    Article : 125 words
  15. THE PLAGUE AND QUARANTINE.

    This question still continues to excite the attention of the distinguished saeans of tbe Academic Royale de Medicate, Paris. At the last meeting of the society on the 30th u[?] M. Loude remarked that, whenever the ...

    Article : 266 words
  16. MESMERISM AND CLAIRVOYANCE.

    "Mesmerism, the gift of God."—Rev. G. Sandby, vicnr o Flivton, Suffolk. "I hope that in time the beneficial effects arising from mesmerism will be better understood and better appreciated."-Rev.Mr ...

    Article : 672 words
  17. A MODERN MIRACLE.

    The Abbe" Cochin lived in the seminary of St Sulpice, and he was allowed a double louis a month for pocket-money by his family, which he spent in charity. Amongst the recipients of his alms was a poor ...

    Article : 383 words
  18. THE TEETH.

    we learn with pleasure. that the for creating long continued following; the extracting of a t[?], invented by Dr Roberts, F R. S. S A dentist and [?] in this city, has been most ...

    Article : 123 words
  19. A VALUABLE SUGGESTION.

    In a recent number of the Medical Gazette it is suggested that by the addition of certain re-agents to poisonous substances, more especially arsenic, their existence might be rendered more evident. Thus, it is ...

    Article : 145 words
  20. MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE ERGOT OF EYE.

    At the last meeting; of the Paris Academy vf Sciences, a paper was received from Boujean, a chemist, of Chamber, on the medicinal properties of the ergot of rye, particularly as a remedy in the case of external ...

    Article : 300 words
  21. MARVELLOUS.

    It is asserted that after decollation the countenance betrays seastbility. Dr. Sue confidently states that when the executioner slapped the truokless head of Charlotte Corday both her cheeks blushed; which he explains by ...

    Article : 116 words
  22. AS GOOD AS IF IT WERE ASOR.

    The Nantucket Islander says die following story was told by a reformed inebriate as an apology for much of the folly of drunkards:—" A mouse running about a brewery, happening to run into a vat of beer. ...

    Article : 198 words
  23. HYDROPHORIA.

    Experiments are being made at the Veterinary School at Lyons for preventing the commnniration of this dreedful malady, and for curing the disease. A remedy was recently proposed by a person unconnected with the ...

    Article : 316 words
  24. DR. [?] MESMERIC EXPERIMENTS.

    Friday mnrnleg we attended, by invitation from Dr. Storer, one of his private exhibitions of the powers of [?], at his residence, Brock-street. The first person operated upon was a boy in Dr. S[?]'s service ...

    Article : 593 words
  25. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A medical man in the South of France was recently requested to give his professional assistance to two poor persons severely wounded; he refused to attend, in consequence of the parties being unable to remunerate him, ...

    Article : 61 words
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