380 Medicwe.. 
She has been led instinctively to adopt the Lancasterian 
mode of education by assigning to the elder the instruction 
of the younger children. Would it be difficult to find in 
each district females thus qualified, who might serve for 
two or three villages, and who might be furnished with lodg- 
pee and a small lot of ground which the pupils would 
cultivate? Government might encourage such establish- 
ments by granting a premium to the communes whic 
formed them. The following is an instance similar to the 
above. 
The widow Rumph, aged 70 years, residing near Bethe- 
ny, supports, with less than thirty francs a month, five boys 
ee little girls. ese children are remarkable for 
their lively and happy countenances, their good condition 
and polite behaviour. The widow Rumph has been the 
mother of fifteen children and has nursed thirty two at her 
33. Medicine. 
_M. Re, Professor of Materia Medica in the veterin 
school of Turin, has discovered that the lycopus europceus 
of Linneus, called the herb of China by the inhabitants of 
Piedmont, where it grows abundantly, especially in marshy 
Places, possesses the same properties as the quinguina and 
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