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Proper Treatment of Scalds ttnd BtO'tts. 



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possessed twice or three tiiiios tlie above 

 sum, he might puisne tlie same phin on 

 a hn'iyer scale and to bettor advantage ; 

 and, if he possessed from 30001. to 5000!. 

 lie would find no diilicnlty in scttiini;- 

 liim.sclf in one of our best seitlenienls, 

 in the best society, on land well im- 

 proved, wiih mill-seats or without: he 

 might also purchase oti.er lands, sufR- 

 cient to enrich all his children ; and, if it 

 were judiciously chosen, and properly 

 managed, would, in a few years, render 

 them entirely indei)endent. This iias 

 been often done, and still conlinues to 

 be by moneyed men, and that frequently 

 without doinfT .any thing more than 

 purchasing new, or uniiiiproved, lands, 

 and letting tliem lie in that state till the 

 adjoining land becomes settled with 

 people. These are no visionary ideas; 

 they hare continued to be realized since 

 the first settlement of the country, and 

 no donbt will be by moncytd men for 

 many years to come. 



Ilie terms on which onr government 

 iell this land are two dollars per acre, 

 in tracis of IGO, 320, 480, or 640 acres, 

 or more : if it is a million of acres, one- 

 fourtli part of the purchase-money may 

 be paid at th.; time of pnrcliasc, or 

 •williin forty days; one-fonrth in two 

 year.s, one-fonrth in three, and one-fourth 

 ill four years, without interest, if the 

 iiislalments be pnnetnally pttid; but in- 

 terest, at 6 per cent, per ai:ii!im, on every 

 instalment tliat is not i)aid on (he day 

 it is due. When the land is cor.ipletely 

 paid for, a patent is granted by the 

 Pre.sident of (he United States, free of 

 further cost to the purcha.ser, his heirs, 

 and assigns for ever; but, if the pur- 

 chaser fails ill any manner to fiiUil the 

 contract, the land is adverd.-^ed lor sale, 

 at least for (hirtydays; ;;n(l, if not paid 

 for at the expiration of that period, it is 

 sold to tlie highe.<;t bidder, and after 

 satisfy it!g the Sinn due to covernment, 

 tlie surplus, if (here be any, is paid to 

 the first jnircliaser. 



If a purchaser chooses to pay for his 

 land before it becomes due, 8 per cent, 

 per ami'am will be discounted on all 

 inoneys paid on any or every instalment 

 before it woiild have become due. By 

 paying the whole at the time of pur- 

 chase, the land costs no more than one 

 dollar, 64 cents per acre. 



The climate of this state does not vary 

 much from tliat of Pennsylvania; the 

 transitions from heat to cold, though as 

 Ih^qiient, are not so great, (here being 

 seldom any of those cold piercjjig north- 



west winds in winter, so common in 

 some parts of the United States; and in 

 summer our nights are moderately cool, 

 and in general the heat is not so exces- 

 sive as in Pennsylvania, but we have 

 less clear sun-shiny weather. Onr 

 prevailing winds, both in winter and 

 summer, are south-wesferly ; and either 

 because our soil is richer and warnief, 

 or from some other cause, winter com- 

 menees two or three weeks later, aiid 

 breaks as much softiier. In this. part 

 of Ohio, which is pretty central, there 

 seems to be no prevailing sickness ; but 

 instances of disorders arising from ob- 

 structed perspiration, and such as are 

 common to liealthy countries, frequently 

 occur. In the northern and southern, 

 as we!! ?.s western part.% iiifermitling 

 fevers and agues, bilious vomiting, &c. 

 pre\ail; but, after t!ie inhabitants un- 

 dergo a seasoning, as it is called, for a 

 few years, it is not so mortal, and the 

 survivers generally enjoy better health. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 



SIR, 



BEING a constant reader of your 

 excellent miscellany, and observ- 

 ing in the one for August, p. 81, the fa- 

 tal result of a scald, and the cen.snre 

 passed on the present slate of medical 

 science, as applicable to that peculiar 

 branch of it, 1 have been induced to trou- 

 ble you with the Ibllow ing remarks. X 

 confess I do not feel much surprised at the 

 want of success of what I deem (he im- 

 proper treatment of that case, as it is 

 now generally understood that, where 

 any extraordinary action has been ex- 

 cited in any part of the system, the 

 sUme stimulus, though in a le.«;s degree, 

 should be per.sevcred in, until the parfs 

 gradually assume their healthy action ; 

 as, for instance, where heat has Ixen th^ 

 cause of diseased action, heat should be 

 continued ; and, where it has been pro- 

 duced by excessive cold, as more parti- 

 cularly in the northern climates, cold 

 applications should be used until tho 

 j)arts act in unison with each other, or 

 by natural common stimuli. I there- 

 tore feel no hesitation in saying, from 

 my own experience, that there might 

 have been niorc probability of a favour- 

 able issue in applying the stimulating 

 than the antiphlogistic remedies, as it 

 appears to uie, the constitution having 

 sustained a severe sliock by the unn.atu- 

 ral stimulus of heat, it is only aggravated 

 by tlie extieme liigidity of the applica- 



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