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confequence of an attack of the bilious fever laft fall, became 

 difeafed with all the ufual fymptoms of a confirmed confump- 

 tion. The falivation was advifed by Dr. Phyfick and myfelf, 

 and was continued to a fevere degree for fcveral weeks. His 

 cough and fever left him with the ceflation of the difcharge 

 from his falivary glands. I faw him on the fecond of this 

 month in good health, and with a confiderable iucreafe of 

 flefh fince his recovery. 



DEAFxNESS RELIEVED BY GALVANISM. 



Profeflbr PfafY, of Kiel, in a letter to Dr. Friedlander* 

 at Paris, fays: " There is an inftitution for the deaf and 

 dumb at Kiel. For three weeks paft I have employed the 

 ele&ric pile of Volta as a cure for deafuefs. It produces its 

 effecl very flowly. The letters which the deaf and dumb can 

 hear, as we may fay, ferve as a meafure to determine the 

 degree of their deafnefs. They hear the letter a the foonelt, 

 then e, and in the laft place i. They often change o into 21. 

 One of them heard ou for fome days as u. Of all the confo- 

 nants, r is that which they hear firft. They are foon able 

 alfo to hear fs and ch ; but they do not hear / and s till very 

 late. The fame phenomena are.,obferved in feveral indivi- 

 duals at the fame time. It appears, however, that the Voltaic 

 pile produces only a momentaneous irritation of the auditory 

 nerves during the time it is employed, and that this irritation 

 is followed by a weaknefs and relaxation of the parts. The 

 patients became deaf as before when I ceafed to electrify 

 them, for the erTecl: is nothing elfe than. that produced by 

 electricity. I propofe to continue my experiments for two 

 months at leaft. 



DEATH. 



On the 28th ult. at his houfe in Marlborough- ftreet, in his 

 35th year, Thomas Garnett, M. D. of a fever of the typhous 

 kind. Without anticipating the account of his life, which, 

 we underftand, is to accompany his lectures, many of which 

 he left ready for the prefs, we may obferve, in general, that 

 he poflefled all the effential qualifications of a public teacher, 

 in an eminent degree. Having been early initiated in claf- 

 fical and mathematical learning by a gentleman of uncom- 

 mon ability, efpeeially as a geometrician, he was thus re- 

 gularly prepared for his fubfequent courfe offtudv at Edin- 

 burgh ; where his application was fuch, that we have heard 

 him fay, he allowed hirnfelf, for feveral years, only four hours 

 (leep, and very little relaxation during the day. What muft 

 have been the progrefs of a penetrating genius^ combined with 

 5 fuch 



