lip, and to which the potential cautery had been applied with no advantage. Upon inspecting the part where the stump had been drawn, I found that the blood oozed out pretty freely, and from a particular spot. I desired him to stuff the opening with soft lint, and to keep his jaws locked, thinking that compression might have the desired effect, which it had, in some degree, for a day or two; but, after this, it recurred with the same violence. Styptic applications were then tried, but with no permanent or decided good effects. I was now determined to have recourse to the actual cautery, as the only probable chance of success. I accordingly removed the lint, and having washed and sponged the part, perceived that the blood came from the same spot; I then applied a red-hot wire with a broad point, which completely suppressed it. Two days thereafter, the hæmorrhagy returned. I resolved to apply the cautery a second time, imagining that I had not applied it so freely as I ought to have done at first: I was again successful, but it returned after an interval of two or three days; and, upon a third repetition, it completely failed. I communicated my want of success to a medical friend (a case of the kind never having occurred to me before) who suggested, that as the cautery had failed, he thought the only thing that could be done was to keep the point of the finger upon the part without intermission for some days and nights. This was done, but, as it had the appearance of simplicity, and my other avocations not permitting me to be constantly upon the spot, the attendants did not persevere with sufficient steadiness. Nature, whose operations at all times we humbly imitate, was alone adequate to the task; for, after its recurrence once and again, she at last prevailed, and, on the twenty-fourth of the same month, the bleeding altogether ceased. Previous to this, he thinks there came on a suppuration of the part, as he spat up some matter tinged with blood. (I may observe, however, that it did not bleed above a fourth part of this time, as it was suppressed by the different means employed; and the quantity lost on any day in which the hæmorrhagy recurred, was very inconsiderable.)

The only medical treatment observed, was the cinchona bark given in powder, and diluted sulphuric acid, as he evidently appeared of a relaxed habit, together with attention to the state of his bowels. His only food was weak broth, taken cold, and milk, with a strict observance of pure and cool air. His pulse became frequent, but was always of pretty good strength. I have drawn up this case in a hasty manner, only with a view to practical utility, and to put others upon their guard against a similar accident, by inquiring into the patient's habit of body, as I certainly cannot help thinking that it proceeded from this cause.

Extract

Extract from a Letter from Mr P. CULLEN, Sheerness, on the cure of Varicose Veins, by the Ligature of the Vena Saphena.

As, perhaps, it may be of general utility, I beg leave to acquaint you, that I have succeeded in curing two cases of varicose veins of the leg, by tying the vena saphena-One was attended with ulcers of the leg, in a man of about 30; the other was not, and in a man of about 24 years of age. In both, the cure was perfectly complete, and the disease had been of some standing.

The place chosen for the operation was on the trunk of the vena saphena, three or four inches above the knee. I laid the vein bare by a small incision, passed a ligature under it, and tied it of a sufficient tightness to interrupt entirely the passage of the blood, and obliterate it. The ends of the ligature were left hanging out of the wound, which was dressed with adhesive plaster. On the third or fourth day, the first dressing was removed, and a simple dressing applied, which was done every day, till the ligature came out, which it did of itself on the twelfth or fourteenth day, cutting its way through the substance of the vein completely. After this the wound healed immediately. As long as the ligature remains, the patient should be confined to his room, and the limb kept in an horizontal posture.

The effect of the operation is soon discernible. First by a sinking, or diminution of the swollen knotty vein, and a kind of tickling, sensation which is felt around the ankle, described by the patient as if a mouse was creeping over it; an indication of the blood forcing some other passage, most likely through the venæ comites, or internal veins. When the cure is completed, the limb returns to its natural size, loses its unwieldiness, and bes comes, like the other, free and easy in all its motions. At least so it happened in these two instances above mentioned.

I should be very glad to know if any other of your correspondents have attempted this, and with what success.

State of the WEATHER in Devonshire.

THE climate of this county varies very much in different districts; in North Devon, from the N. E. extremity to the southernmost cove in Barnstable or Biddeford-bay, snow seldom lies longer than a few hours; and the double-flowering myrtle, as well as the more delicate aromatic and narrow-leaved sorts, constantly flourish in the open air, and not unfrequently constitute a part of the garden hedges. The two following tables, taken, the one at Ilfracombe, situated on the coast, 50 feet above the level of the sea, the other at Oakhampton, within a few miles of Dartmoor forest, mark a very striking difference of temperature in two places not more than 35 miles distant from each other.

The

The average height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer during the year 1806: At Ilfracombe. At Oakhampton. Difference. Average.

For January,

February.

53°

3410

18407

Remarkable Instance of Parturition.

THE public newspapers recorded the following birth in the month of May last:-At the poor-house in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Hannah Bourne, a deformed dwarf, measuring only 25 inches in height, was, after a tedious and difficult labour, safely delivered of a female child, of the ordinary size, measuring 21 inches and a half, being only three inches and a half shorter than the mother. The child was, in every respect, perfect, but still-born; the mother is likely to do well.

Dr Forbes of Edinburgh is engaged on a translation of Pliny's Natural History, with scientific and critical notes and illustrations: a life of the author, and a preliminary dissertation on the origin of Natural History, and on its progress and gradual improvement. One great object which the translator will keep in view, is to accommodate Pliny's descriptions to the nomenclature of Linnæus. The work will extend to six or seven volumes in octavo.

On the first of October, will be published "Anatomico-chirurgical views of the nose, mouth, larynx, and fauces, with appropriate explanations and references, by Mr J. J. Watt, surgeon." The engravings will be four in number, containing six views of the parts of their natural size, and accompanied with the same number of outline figures of reference, with an additional anatomical description of these organs, by Mr W. Lawrence, Demonstrator of Anatomy, St Bartholomew's Hospital.

To CORRESPONDENTS.- -Communications have been received from Another Physician, and Mr G. N. Hill; and the Reviews of Dr Jarrold's Arthropologia, Dr Willan's last fasciculus, and Alibert's third and fourth numbers, with various articles of Medical Intelligence, are necessarily postponed to our next number, which will be published on the 1st of January 1809.