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as a dressing for -wounds with considerable advantage, and 

 is capable of several important technical applications. 6 C, 

 April 28, 156. 



LEAD-FOIL FOR DRESSING WOUNDS. 



The use of lead-foil in the place of lint as an application 

 for wounds and burns has been lately recommended in a com- 

 munication to the Paris Academy of Sciences. The lead is 

 made to adhere to the flesh by some glutinous substance, and 

 it is said to have been highly beneficial in many cases where 

 workmen were injured in factories. Lead is both cool and 

 safe to the skin, and the sulphide of lead which is formed pre- 

 vents putrefaction. One great recommendation is that the 

 wound may be cooled without removing the lead by simply 

 wetting the bandage with water, thus preventing the en- 

 trance of infected air and morbid germs. 15 A, Aug. 6, 180. 



ELECTRO-ACUPUNCTURE OF THE ARCH OF THE AORTA. 



Among the novelties of surgical science may be mentioned 

 the use of electro-acupuncture for the relief of aneurism of 

 the arch of the aorta, as practiced in Italy. Experiments in 

 this direction have been quite successful, involving no dan- 

 ger, and giving the patient relief from great suffering. 5 A, 

 July, 329. 



GLYCONIN. 



A mixture of five parts of glycerine and four parts of yolk 

 of egg, under the name of glyconin, has been used to some 

 advantage for the healing of wounds, the mixture forming a 

 varnish over the skin impenetrable to air and moisture. 5 C t 

 1871, xxix., 232. 



PEGGING LOBSTER CLAWS. 



Humanitarians in England have lately been considerably 

 exercised on the subject of pegging the claws of lobsters in 

 the fish-market, to prevent their injuring the incautious by- 

 stander ; and it has been claimed that such a practice tends 

 not only to give great pain to the animals, but also, by the 

 laceration of the flesh, to induce a morbid condition of the 

 system, and thus cause disease to persons eating them. It is 

 asserted, in this connection, that many of the cases of poison- 



