222 REMARKABLE EFFECT OF EFFLUVIA, &C. 



every amputation he would attack the bull. The cruel 

 e;cperiment was tried, and with success." Such detest- 

 able barbarity can only be exceeded by the following 

 recital extracted from the public prints of 1799. At a 

 bull-baiting in Staffordshire, after the animal had been 

 baited by single dogs, he was attacked by numbers let 

 loose at once upon him. — Having escaped from his 

 tormentors, they again fastened him to the ring ; and with 

 a view either of gratifying their savage revenge, or of 

 better securing their victim, they actually cut off his 

 hoofs, and enjoyed the spectacle of his being worried to 

 death on his bloody and mangled stumps. These factss 

 speak more than a volume against the sophistic ar- 

 guments of the advocates for exciting brave and manly 

 courage by the exhibition of bloody and barbarous 

 sports. 



[To be concluded in our next.] 



VII. 



, ' Kemarkable Effect of the Effluvia from Ammonia Mu^ 



riate of Platina on the Ei/es, Nostrils^ Throaty and 

 Lungs, as in a Catarrh, In a Letter from An Occa^ 

 sional Correspondent. 



To Mr. Nicholson. 

 Sir, 



Effects not hi- X DO not know that the following effects of the effluvia 



thcrto noticed of precipitate of platina by muriate of ammoLia, i. e. of 



ammonia muriate of platina, have been observed ; and 



whether or no these are like those from the effluvia of 



ipecacuanha, in occasion, as asthmafical paroxysms, only 



to be considered as produced in particular constitutions, 



I must learn from the intelligent correspondence of your 



journal. 



-on tlic system, Every time I have had occasion to open a paper, or 



byvapourfrom small parcel of the above precipitate, although I merely 



ammonia mu- ^o^ched it with my fingers, or even when I did not touch 

 Tiatc oi platina. •' ° ' 



it, but merely inspected it for a minute or two, I was in a 



few 



