236 Intellisence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



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mencement of a system of prevention by the removal of the causes 

 of fever, you have in your own hands, and have had for some months, 

 the sure and certain means of preventing the extension of fever to 

 the immediate attendants on the sick.' 



" In the columns of newspapers, in the pages of journals, on the 

 covers of magazines, in the corners of railway guides, placarded on 

 dead walls and bankrupts' sliop-windows, dropped into the hat at 

 public meetings, thrust into the hand in streets, and forced upon the 

 attention at every turn, we thought all the modes of puffing quack 

 advertisements and indecent labels, eitlier in prose or rhyme, had 

 been exhausted : but we find that we were mistaken. A novelty in 

 this department has been introduced by Colonel Calvert ; and in the 

 pages of a parliamentary report* we see pufts as gross, and language 

 as indelicate, as any that disfigure the lowest newspapers." 



We can only add an expression of our regret that an important 

 public cause, that of sanitary improvements, should have to encounter 

 prejudices raised against it from the exaggerations, misrepresenta- 

 tions, quackery, and jobbing which are too manifest in the conduct 

 of some of its advocates. 



A GRANT OF 200/. TO MR. WILLIAM STURGEON. 

 We are glad to learn, from a communication dated Downing 

 Street, 12th August, from Colonel Grey, the private secretary of 

 Lord John Russell, that his Lordship has been pleased to grant the 

 sum of 200Z., from the Royal Bounty Fund, to Mr. William Stur- 

 geon of this town. Mr. Sturgeon was formerly lecturer on experi- 

 mental philosophy at the Hon. East India Company's Military Aca- 

 demy, Addiscombe ; and since his residence in Manchester, now 

 extending over a number of years, he has been superintendent of 

 the Victoria Gallery, delivering various courses of lectures there ; 

 and subsequently he filled the office of lecturer to the Manchester 

 Institute of Natural and Experimental Science. For a long series 

 of years Mr. Sturgeon has honourably distinguished himself by his 

 investigations and discoveries in the various branches of electrical 

 science, especially in electro- magnetism and thermo-electricity. 



OBSERVATIONS ON CREATINE. BY M. HEINTZ. 



About two years ago I described a peculiar substance which I had 

 discovered in the normal urine of man. From subsequent investi- 

 gations I find that this substance is identical with that which M. 

 Chevreul found in meat broth, to which he gave the name of crea- 

 tine, and the presence of which in the fresh muscular flesh of dif- 

 ferent animals has recently been shown by Liebig. 



The most advantageous method of procuring the substance is that 

 subsequently pointed out by M. Pettenkofer ; it consists in adding 



* That Parliamentary Reports are sometimes made vehicles of privileged 

 detraction and calumny the public are already aware. A late instance with 

 regard to the Greenwich Observatory has been exposed by the Astronomer 

 Royal, 



