Natural History, 227 



S. Gouty Inflammation cured by Vaccination over the diseased 

 part. — " A lady of hereditary gouty diathesis had been inoculated 

 for the small-pox some 50 years ago,'* and had it severely. " Some 

 time since, I was requested by her to vaccinate her servant girl, 

 which I did, and successfully. She was herself labouring at this 

 time under a severe attack of gout in her right wrist, which was 

 swollen, and extremely painful, her system being feverish, &c. I 

 inserted, with her permission, a portion of the virus into the affected 

 part, with the view of ascertaining whether she could take the vac- 

 cine disease, and if so, what effect it would produce upon the gout. 

 Somewhat to my surprise, and greatly to ray satisfaction, she not 

 only had the genuine disease, but the swelling and pain immediately 

 lefl her arm, and long before the scab (which was green) had 

 dropped off, she was as well and as comfortable as she had ever 

 been in her life. The cicatrix remaining is of the genuine porous 

 kind." — Dr. Theodore Coxe. — N. American Med. Jour. 



4. Effect of Chlorine in Chronic Affections of the Lungs. — 

 A bleaching establishment having been removed into a situa- 

 tion notoriously damp, where catarrhal affections were extremely 

 common, M. Bourgeois was not a little surprised to observe that 

 those employed in this establishment were less liable to these attacks 

 than their neighbours. As chlorine is much used in such establish- 

 ments, he attributed to it the preventive influence. It chanced that 

 two people, one with chronic catarrh resembling phthisis, and the 

 other with a vomica in the lungs, were perfectly cured after two or 

 three months' residence in this establishment. 



Chlorine has been used medicinally. M. Bourgeois prefers it dis- 

 engaged from a mixture of oxide of manganese and muriatic acid ; 

 it is of course to be diluted with very much atmospheric air. — Med, 

 Journal^ Ix. 173. 



5. Sting of a Wasp. — The bulb of an onion or garlic, cut and 

 applied immediately to the place stung, instantly removes the pain. 

 Recueillndustrielley vi. 216. 



6. On Insects inclosed in Copal. — The insects contained in the 

 different kinds of copal, which occur in commerce, are not less in- 

 teresting than those inclosed in amber. M. Dalman has examined 

 many of them very minutely, and has found, — 1. That there is a 

 complete analogy existing between these insects and those contained 

 in amber. 2. That there are many new genera amongst them, and 

 many new species of genera already known. 3. That some new 

 points relative to the geography of insects may be deduced from 

 them ; for copal, which is always an exotic substance, contains insects 

 belonging to genera which had been supposed to occur exclusively 

 in Europe, such for instance as Pselaphus, Claviger, Aliochara, 

 Chermes, Thrips, &c. 



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