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generally believed, to an elevation of temperature ; and it is 

 asserted that, if the eye be properly shaded from the glare of 

 the sun, any extra or unusual precaution in the way of pro- 

 tecting the head and back of the neck may be dispensed with. 

 12 A, December 29,1870,168. 



PREVENTION OF SEA-SICKNESS. 



It is said that the nausea and vomiting produced by swing- 

 ing and sea-sickness can be resisted by applying to the epi- 

 gastrium a layer of wadding dipped in collodion. This, we 

 are informed, should extend over the xiphoid cartilage to the 

 umbilicus, and be left until it falls off. If the adhesion be im- 

 perfect, the application should be renewed. According to the 

 discoverer, the action of the peripheral nerves is interrupted 

 by this application, just as the pain of calculi in the bile pas- 

 sages or ureters is sometimes mitigated by the application of 

 castorroil and collodion. 6 A, October 22, 527. 



PROTECTION AGAINST SEA-SICKNESS. 



Mr. Bessemer, the well-known inventor of the process for 

 manufacturing steel bearing his name, has lately been en- 

 gaged in completing his plan, already announced, of securing 

 a comfortable passage at sea, in the most stormy weather, by 

 constructing a cabin, the floor of which, under all circum- 

 stances, remains horizontal, no matter what motion may be 

 given to the vessel. This cabin is circular in shape, and hung 

 on gimbals at the centre, the point of suspension in the ship 

 being so chosen that the cabin, as a whole, shall have as little 

 vertical motion as possible. A vessel is now being construct- 

 ed to test the plan, and, if the actual experiment result satis- 

 factorily, it is believed that sea-sickness will be practically 

 unknown during a voyage in a cabin of the new arrangement. 

 5 A.October, 1870,431. 



PHOSPHATE OF LIME IN MEDICINE. 



A French author has recently written a work to impress 

 upon physicians the importance of administering phosphate 

 of lime in their practice. He professes to prove that this 

 substance is, above all others, the natural supplement of the 

 function of nutrition ; that by its action the albuminous mat- 

 ter is made to take the form of cellular, and that it presides 



