I08 Stati/Iics. — Medicine. 



has been mounted is n feet 9 inches Englifli in height from 

 the extremity of the vertebral epiphytes of the flioulikr to 

 thofe of the fore-feet. " 



STATISTICS. 



C. Chaptal has fent the following letter to M. Otto, mi- 

 nifter plenipotentiary of the French republic at London, in 

 confequence of receiving, through his hands, a copy of Sir 

 John Sinclair's paper on longevity, a part of which has been 

 given in the prefent number of the Philofophical Magazine : 



" I beg you will thank Sir John Sinclair for the work he 

 has fent me: it is worthy of a man who is conftantly em- 

 ployed with what is ufeful, and who has directed his attention 

 to one of the molt curious and moft interesting points in the 

 iludy of man. Anfwers to the queftions propofed bv Sir John 

 Sinclair would, no doubt, throw great light on the caufes, 

 hitherto obfcure, in regard to the difference in the duration 

 of the life of man. We fee fome placed in circumftances 

 which might be confidered favourable, carried oft" at a very 

 early age; while others, furrounded by all the apparent caufes 

 of death, reach the utmoft term of human life. I mall cir- 

 culate the queftions propofed by Sir John Sinclair, and I 

 have given orders that the tables of mortality drawn up by 

 the government (hall be tranfmitted to him every year, with 

 the particular obfervations which accompany them. I fhal! 

 be very glad to know his opinion on this labour as it reaches 

 him. i beg you will alfure him of my efteem, and that 

 1 wifli a correfpondence may be eftablifhed between us.'* 



MEDICINE. 



Fn a letter which came to hand a few days ago from our 

 friend Dr. Mitchell, of New York, whofe political engage- 

 ments (having been again ele£ted member of Congrefs)"have 

 not leffened his ardour for fcience, we have received feveral 

 important communications, which {hall appear in our next. 

 We (hould, however, feel ourfelves culpable if we delayed the 

 publication of the following cafes of pulmonary confumption 

 cured by a falivation ; communicated in a letter from Dr. Rufh 

 to Dr. Miller, dated Philadelphia, May 6, 1802 : 



f* I have great pleafure in informing you that Dr. Parke 

 has lately difeharged a patient from the Pennfylvania hofpital 

 perfectly cured oF a pulmonary confumption by means of a 

 falivation, I have likewife been again made happy in feeing 

 the triumph of that remedy in the cafe of Mr. James Hunter, 

 a young gentleman of rel'pcclable character in this city. He 

 had been afflicted for feveral years with weak lungs; and, in 



confequence 



