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Dr Runymann delivered a history of a poisoning by mercurial vapour, shewing its first symptoms by a convulsive struggling in the hands, which afterwards communicated itself to the knees, and then affected the organs of speech. The patient did not get over it till after a twelvemonth's perseverance in the internal use of hepar sulphuris, combined with sulphureous baths. He also mentioned the case of a frost-bitten foot, which had been entirely mortified, it having been quite sphacelous and black, without either feeling or motion. He ordered the foot to be immersed in snow for 36 hours, by which it revived, and got colour and feeling again, excepting three toes, which gradually got loose, and finally separated.

Dr and Professor Turtle communicated the analysis of the urine of an herpetic patient, which was found to contain a great proportion of phosphate of lime.

Dr Schweitzer mentioned a number of cases of ophthalmia, neonatorum, spasms, hooping-cough, and scrofulous ophthalmia he had cured by animal magnetism. He praises it in particular in the latter case, and assures, that, of 60 children he had cured, he had occasion for nothing else but a good regimen, baths, and magnetism. He also asserts it to be very efficacious and expeditious in cardialgy and menostacy. He concluded with the case of a man, who, having laboured many years under strangury and irregularity of the bowels, was cured by magnetism.

Dr Fleims read the history of a respectable tradesman, who, fourteen years ago, after having been quite well, suddenly awoke in the night, and, without the least provocation, ill-treated his wife in a terrible manner, endeavouring to throw her out of the window. After struggling half an hour, he was spent. The wife's clamour having brought assistance, an emetic was given him, and he recovered from his momentary madness, the symptoms of which have never since returned: A case most remarkable, as well for morbid psychology, as forensic medicine; the doctrine of periodical insanity, and imputation to vice.

Dr and Professor Horn spoke of the disorders of the mind, and their psychical treatment, which, in his opinion, by no means always answers the purpose. He also treated of the turning-machine lately introduced in the Charité, which he finds particularly useful in that kind of insanity proceeding from a psychical cause, in violent delirium, and in creating fear and obedience. Its primary effects are anxiety, anguish, sense of illness, headach, vertigo, strangling, first redness, and the paleness of the face.

Copenhagen.

According to a report of the Royal Committee for vacci nation, the number of vaccinated in Denmark, as far as was published, amounted in 1802 to 6498, in 1803 to 14,492, in 1804 to 7985, in 1805 to 23,155, in 1806 to 23,465, in 1807 to 7577, in 1808 to 27,556, in 1809 to 11,638, in 1810 to 35,409, in 1811 to 36,074, in 1812 to 25,808, in 1813 to 21,251. Total in twelve years, 240,399, exclusive of those vaccinated in the Royal Danish German territories, and in the latter years, even of those in Greenland, Färöern, Iceland, and the Transatlantic Danish settlements. The report ends with this final observation, "The committee might add the assurance, that if the present resolution is further persevered in, Denmark will no longer have to dread an epidemy of the small-pox, but may consider them and their dreadful consequences as totally exiled from the Danish states, vaccination having made so rapid a progress, that we look in vain for a similar instance in any other state or province."

The most remarkable fact noticed in the last report of the National Vaccine Establishment, is the following letter from the Sovereign of St Domingo :

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le 5 Fevrier 1816, l'An 13 de l'Independence. "Le Roi à Monsieur James Moore, Directeur de l'Etablissement de la Vaccine Nationale Britannique, &c. &c.

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MONSIEUR,—Mr Prince Sanders m'a presénté de votre part l'ouvrage que vous m'avez addressé sur la maladie de la Petite Verole; j'ai accepté cet ouvrage avec plaisir, et vous remercie infiniment pour votre honnéte et obligeante attention, et l'interet que vous voulez bien prendre à la conservation des Haitiens.

"La precieuse découverte de la Vaccine est trop importante pour la vie des hommes, elle honore trop l'humanité pour que je ne l'adopte pas das mon Royaume. A l'arrivé de Mr Prince Sanders, j'ai fait mettre en usage la Vaccination, pour être de suite generalement suivie par les Medecins Haïtiens; nous avons une quantité innombrable d'Enfants à Vacciner.

"Mon intention est de faire donner toute la latitude possible aux heureux resultats de cette immortelle decouverte que je n'avais pas été a même de faire mettre jusqu'ici en pratique par les contrariétés que j'ai éprouvé dans les demandes que j'ai faites à la Jamaïque, Saint Thomas, et les Etats Unis d'Amerique, relativement à cet objet, dont j'ai appris les salutaires effets. Ce bienfait ajoutera encore à la reconnaissance des Haïtiens envers la grande et magnanime Nation Britannique.

"J'ai chargé Mr Prince Sanders de vous temoigner personellement mes vifs et sinceres remerciemens.

"HENRI."

An Abstract of the Registry kept at the Lying-in Hospital in Dublin, from the 8th of De cember 1757, (the day it was first opened,) to the 31st December

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Proportion of Males and Females boru, about ten males to nine females.
Children dying in the hospital, about one to sixteen.
Children still-born, about one to eighteen.

Women having twins (and more), about one to fifty-seven.
Women dying in child bed, about one to ninety-three.

Women having three and four children, about one to 3545.

Extract of a Letter from Professor Scarpa of Pavia, to John Wishart, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. Pavia, 13th January 1816. I send in a box a copy of all my works, anatomical and surgical, except that on the diseases of the eyes, as the fifth Italian edition will soon be published, the only one which I have revised, since the first, after sixteen years' farther experience. With the books I send four of my cataract needles, and the gorget of Hawkins, as improved by me, in regard to which you I have seen some needles, of my will find a memoir of mine. said to have been made in England, but, from their enormous size, they seem to have been intended to operate on horses, and not on men. Experience has taught me, that, in similar circumstances, the consecutive symptoms are directly as the size of the needle. With regard to the gorget, I beg that you will translate my memoir, that it may become known to the surgeons of your principal hospitals, on account of the rules to be observed in introducing the gorget, the inclination of the cutting edge of which is calculated to perform the lateral incision exactly, if the staff be held quite perpendicular, in the line of the raphe of the perinæum. I can assure you, that, with this instrument, I always make the incision of the prostate sufficiently large, and with certainty, to extract large stones, without fear of injuring the rectum, or arteria pudenda profunda. The cutler, in making this instrument, must attend particularly to the proper inclination between the cutting edge and the hollow of the gorget.

The death of Monteggia is unfortunately true. His sixth volume will be immediately published, but without notes. have also lost Mascagni.

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Among the books I send you, you will also find the Fisiologia of Jacopi, a favourite pupil of mine, whose death I deplore; also a memoir by him upon the inutility of the operation of paracentesis for the cure of tympanites, and another upon Darwin's doctrine of the retrograde motion of the lymphatics.

Extract of a Letter from Dr Kaufmann of Hannover, to John
Wishart, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh.

I intended sending you the description of some singular cases which lately occurred to me. One was a curious disease of the heart, which ended fatally; another was the case of a new born infant, which lived twelve hours after birth, heard, took food,

but did not breathe, or cry; it could not suck, but there was a regular motion of the thorax. On dissection, the lungs were found quite consistent, as in a foetus, with all the tests of having never inspired air; the heart was as usual, but the foramen ovale open.

Died, on Tuesday the 18th instant, (June) in the 82d year of his age, Mr Thomas Henry, President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, Fellow of the Royal Society in London, and Member of several other learned Societies both in this country and abroad. As a practical and philosophical chemist, he had obtained a high and merited reputation. His contributions to that science, desides a small volume of Essays and his Translations of the earlier writings of Lavoisier, which he first introduced to the notice of the English reader, consist chiefly of Memoirs, dispersed through the Transactions of the various Societies to which he belonged, and relating both to those parts of chemistry that are purely scientific, and to those which have a connection with the useful arts. On a subject intimately connected with the success of the cotton manufacture, (the employment of Mordaunts or Bases in dyeing,) "Mr Henry was the first," to use the words applied to him by a subsequent author, "who thought and wrote philosophically." In the introduction, too, of the new mode of bleaching, which has worked an entire revolution in that art, and occasioned an incomparably quicker circulation of capital, he was one of the earliest and most successful agents. In addition to the acquirements connected with his profession, he had cultivated, to no inconsiderable degree, a taste for the productions of the Fine Arts: he had obtained a knowledge of historical events remarkable for its extent and accuracy; and he had derived, from reading and reflection, opinions to which he was steadily attached, on those topics of political, moral, and religious inquiry, which are most important to the welfare of mankind. For several years past, he had retired from the practice of medicine, in which he had been extensively engaged, with credit and success, for more than half a century; and, from delicate health, he had long ceased to take an active share in the practical cultivation of science. But possessing, almost unimpaired, his facu'ties of memory and judgment, he continued to feel a lively interest in the advancement of literature and philosophy. Retaining, also, in their full vigour, those kind affections of the heart, that gave birth to the most estimable moral qualities, and secured the faithful attachment of his friends, he passed through a long and serene old age, experiencing little but its comforts and its honours, and habitually thankful for the blessings with which Providence had indulged him.

Dr Clough, 68, Berner's Street, Physician-Accoucheur to the St Mary-la-bonne General Dispensary, and to the Endeavour, or Benevolent Society, &c. commences his Summer Course of Lectures on the science and practice of Midwifery, including the diseases of women and children, on Monday morning, the 7th of July, at half-past ten, and at seven in the evening.

Communications have been received from Mr MACKESY, &c. and publications for analytical criticism, by Professors HUFELAND, AUTENRIETH, and FRORIEP, Drs ALBERS, PARKINSON, MILLS, and CLANNY, Messra DOUGHTY, WHATELY, and JARDINE.

Communications may be addressed to the Editors, to the care of Messrs CONSTABLE & Co. Edinburgh; Messrs LONGMAN, HURST, REES, Orme, & BROWN, London; and JOHN CUMMING, Dublin.

No. XLVIII. will be published on the 1st of October 1816.

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