398 Scientific Intelligence, — Anthropology. 



shrub, both in decoction and in powder, without exciting any 

 other sensations than those which arise from the exhibition of 

 the fresh bark of the root of the plant. I have also ascertained, 

 by frequent trials, that the virtues of the bark may be preser- 

 ved several years ; a circumstance favourable to its transmission 

 to Europe. Some bark of the stem, which I have had upwards 

 of four years packed in a deal box. I have recently tried in se- 

 veral cases of taenia with perfect success ; so that I have no he- 

 sitation whatever in recommending this drug, not only as a safe, 

 but as a perfectly certain remedy for the expulsion of taenia. 

 This drug is equally efficacious in expeUing from the lower ani- 

 mals, (especially dogs) taenia, to which they are very subject in 

 this country. To full grown dogs may be given the same dose 

 as that taken by adults. The powder mixed with butter or 

 minced meat, is as good a form as any ; some dogs will of them- 

 selves eat it when prepared in this manner. The powder may 

 also be given in balls, or the decoction may be substituted with 

 equal effect. We are indebted, it seems, for our knowledge of 

 this invaluable remedy for the tape worm to a mussulman fa- 

 keer, named Azim Shah, who, in 1804, having relieved, in a 

 few hours, Mr Robert Home of Calcutta of a taenia, which mea- 

 sured 86 feet in length, was prevailed on by a reward of two 

 gold mohars, to disclose the secret."" — Transactions of the MedU 

 cal arid Physical Society of Calcutta, vol. i. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



28. Accou7it of a singularly small Child, by T. E. Baker, 

 Esq. of Buxar. — The child is the daughter of a Mrs Green, the 

 wife of the riding-master of the 5th Native Cavalry, and is now 

 with the mother, living at this station with Mr Edwards, an 

 overseer to the Honourable Company's depot ; it has been seen 

 by Mr Surgeon Gibb, the superintendant of the stud ; by 

 Thompson, the civil surgeon of Arrah, by Captain J. Macken- 

 zie, and other residents at the station. The mother was coming 

 by water from Agra, and was confined near Bandah, when she 

 thought herself about six months and a half gone with child, 

 and attributed her premature confinement to having over-exerted 

 herself in removing some boxes, &c. On this day (May 24th) 

 the child is one month and twenty days old ; it weighs exactly 

 one pound and thirteen ounces, and is fourteen inches in length. 



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