t?© R6y a} Society of L^yidom 



complaint, the boy was permitted to return gradually to hl^ 

 tifual mode of living, and has fince continued in good health. 

 l>urmg the time of the above regimen, he was two or three 

 times fairly intoxicated, and that too by defign. 



You will, doubtlefs^ efteem the above mode of treatment 

 fuch as would hardly have been ventured on by a judicious 

 practitioner J and yet to ity I am inelin<id to think, the boy 

 owes his hfe. 



From the nature of the food and drink, the quantity of 

 chyle generated muft have been much lefs than ufiraL Andy 

 admitting that a proportibn of it was difcharged into the cavity 

 of the abdomen, we may fuppofe this to have been taken up 

 by the increafed aftion of the abforbent veflels of that cavity, 

 excited inlsa more than ordinary energy by the flimulus of the 

 gin.- The difeafed veflel or veffels being Icfs diftended than 

 heFctoforCy would, of courfe, be more difpofed to heal. 

 . ..If yon. Sir, who are fo competent a judge in matters of 

 this kind, conceive the above cafe can be of any fervice to 

 the public, yoii have my permiffion to difpofe of it in fuch a 

 way as may appear to you mofl likely to promote that end. 



Qui^re, How far would the above regimen fucceed in 

 afcites, after the operation ? 



XXII r. Proceedings of Learned SocietteSy Mifcellaneous Arti-^ 

 clesy and new Publications, March iSoi.- 



o, 



Royal socistY of London, 



N February 26, the reading of Count de Bournon's* 

 paper on the cryftals of arfeniat of copper and iron, found 

 in Gprla'nd mine, in the county of ComwaTl, was concluded. 



March 5th', 12th, and i8th, were entirely taken up in read--^ 

 ing the chemieat analyfis of tl«i arfeniats oi copper found in 

 Gorland mine. This paper was of a nature which prevents- 

 k& being detailed. The experiments were made and defcrlbed 

 in a moll accurate, mallerly, and elegant manner, by Richard 

 Chtrncvix, Efq. F.R.S., and will be of the higheft import- 

 ance to'tliofe concerned in copper works, as well as to the 

 fcientifie wofld-ia general. 



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