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suddenly. Dr. Bond has described the entire worm and 

 its history for the London medical commentaries. 



Dr. Benjamin Rush is the Professor of Chymistry, 

 and is a very favorite practicioner a man whose agree- 

 able manners, oratorical fluency, and flowery style abun- 

 dantly recommend him to his fellow-countrymen. He 

 is the author of several opuscula of a medical nature, 

 but also appears frequently as a political writer. Sev- 

 eral sheets of his on the newest methods of inoculating 

 for the small-pox and of treating that disease have 

 appeared recently in a German translation. During 

 the war he was for a time Physician-in-Chief of the 

 American army and frequently had occasion to observe 

 the fatal course of the lockjaw + in cases of insignifi- 

 cant wounds, although opium was administered heav- 

 ily. This led him to the opinion that the cause might 

 be found in an extreme weakness of the body. There- 

 fore his treatment was to administer Peruvian bark and 

 wine, at the same time making incisions in the wound 

 and applying a blister of Spanish fly. Results were 

 incomparably better. He intends himself to publish, 

 with other material, his observations and conclusions in 

 this matter, unless publication of them is managed 

 earlier in some other way. The idea is confirmed by 

 the comparisons made between the wounded of the two 

 armies, British and French, after the siege of York in 

 Virginia. Most of the wounded in the French army, 

 but especially those of West India regiments, were at- 

 tacked with the lockjaw and died, although their in- 

 juries may have been slight, whereas in the British 

 hospitals a fatal outcome was seldom remarked. It is 

 a known fact that soldiers from the West Indies always 

 show a weak state of health, and the remainder of the 

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