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  2. SURGERY AND MEDICINE.

    We understand that Dr. Stummes, late of Vienna, at present Physician to the Hydropathic establishment at Grasmere, in Westmoreland, has proposed to the Comruander-in-Chief the ...

    Article : 162 words
  3. FRAUDS AND FREAKS.

    A scene of a most unusual and exciting character occurred lately in the Lecture Theatre of the City Literary Institution, in Aldergate-street. An Irish gentleman, described in the prospectus as " J. J. ...

    Article : 538 words
  4. SINGULAR FREAKS OF SAILOR GIRLS.

    Very considerable curiosity and interest were excited in the neighbourhood of Fenwick-street lately, in consequence of two female servants from Hull having been found dressed in sailors' attire, and ...

    Article : 1,076 words
  5. CHEAP PHYSIC.

    In one of the committee-rooms of Parliament lately, a fact transpired on the examination of a chemical witness, which we lose no time in communicating to the public for the Lenefit of all ...

    Article : 93 words
  6. BLOOD AN ANTIDOTR TO ARSRNIC.

    Experiments made in France on dogs, commencing with three grains of arsenious acid, followed by a dose of eighteen ounces of fresh calf's blood (subsequently extended to nine grains, and ...

    Article : 70 words
  7. A MEDICAL PHENOMENON? EXPLAINED.

    At the celebrated Black Assizes at Oxford, so called from their fatality—the no less celebrated Old Bailey sessions in 1750—and others, nearly the whole court, including the jury, were struck with goal fever ...

    Article : 257 words
  8. CUKE OF A BROKEN BACK.

    A line athletic young man, residing at Hartsbay, near Heage, met with a severe injury of the back from a heavy mass of coals falling upon him whilst at work in a pit beloging to Mr. V. ...

    Article : 156 words
  9. NOVEL FRAUDS.

    A young man, bearing the aristocratic name of De Belfort, was lately tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris, for swindling, under the following circumstances:—He had put forth a ...

    Article : 324 words
  10. DISHONEST DEFAULTERS AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

    Dishonest defaulters, no matter whether members or principals, are punished, and their characters blasted by the suspension of a black board in a conspicuous part of the house, on which their names are ...

    Article : 428 words
  11. MEDICATED MILK.

    We learn from the last number of the Gazette Medicate (27th June), that a new institution for the medication of milk has lately been established at Medication, near Paris. The physicians who ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A child was accidentally drowned in the New River at Ware, lately, and on the body being recovered, the usual means were employed to restore animation. The little sufferer was revived sufficiently ...

    Article : 620 words
  13. LUSUS NATURE.

    The Boston Times says, "An extraordinary freak of nature has appeared at Little Rock, Pennsylvania. The head of an infant, furnished with hair and teeth, has produced itself through the ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. AN ARTFUL EXPEDIENT.

    The following very ingenious contrivance to elude the enemy deserves to be recorded:—A gentleman of property, whom we shall call A., living in a fine house with a lodge and park-looking entrance ...

    Article : 494 words
  15. GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN SUBJECT.

    A case of this frightful disease has recently occurred at Navan. The sufferer was a boy named Christopher Clarke, of Rathconne, about seventeen years old, who caught the disease from a glandered ...

    Article : 269 words
  16. EXTRAORDINARY HOLY.

    The walls of Newport were lately placarded with Announcements, setting forth that "J. Ford, of Bristol." would exhibit the safety of Daniel'S patent safety life-belt, by swimming across the river Usk at ...

    Article : 276 words
  17. DRUGGISTS' PHYSIC FOR HORSES.—CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

    There can be no greater cruelty practised towards man or beast than to "physic them to death" unskilfully. I should be amongst the last to complain of quackery, and the unskilful treatment of cattle by ...

    Article : 631 words
  18. WORTH OF A JEW'S PRAYER.

    The country around was cultivated with the grain called dra, and there was every prospect of a favourable harvest. " God be praised (said the kaid) for his bounty; last year, in truth, we had a sad ...

    Article : 247 words
  19. AN IMPUDENT IMPOSTER.

    The Bath Herald narrates an account of the proceedings of an impudent imposter, at Radstock, who had assumed the name of James Smith, who left that place 40 years ago. Time had so altered his ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. A SCOTCH STORY OF A SCOTCHMAN IN PARIS.

    An Edinburgh paper affords the following illustration of character:—"Paris possesses, among, many other peculiar classes, one called lozettes, a set of women who trade upon their beauty, but do go in ...

    Article : 529 words
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