386 Connexion beiween wMagaetism and Electricity. 
50. Iodine. 
2 This substance has been found to be an excellent reme- 
3 dyi in the cure of Goitre. An able memoir upon it by Dr. 
Coindet in the Bib. Univ. of Geneva contains the following. 
lode is a stimulant, it gives tone to the stomach, and excites 
appetite ; it acts ieither as a cathartic, nor diuretic, nor 
does it excite sweating; but its action is directed to the re- 
productive system, and especially to the uterus. If given 
in a certain quantity and continued for some time, it is one 
of the most active emmenagogues that I know. It is per- 
haps by the sympathetic action that, in the greater number 
ef cases it cures Goitre. This substance deserves, under 
this new point of view, the i of physicians, and 1} 
doubt not, that it will become in skilful hands one of the 
most powerful remedies with vahich modern chemistry has 
enriched the materia medica. It has been discovered in 
sponge matin in peat. 
Ble Mereurial Aim sphere. 
“Mr. a shelical operator at the fos a 
London, has found that when a thin stratum of mercury 
rests in the bottom of a clean vial, a piece of gold leaf care- 
fully suspended from the stopper, becomes in the course of 
a few weeks, whitened by a quantity of mercury through ev- 
ery part of the bottle, the ee: nodes as before. 
Brande’s J 
82. Connexion between Magnetism ok Electricity: 
The discoveries of Professor Oersted of Copenhagen 
which so clearly establish the connexion between Mag- 
Refism and Voltaic electricity I have been penssicontae so _ 
ret i Cre medal. as the Journal of the ~~ 
se highly i interesting results. 
a long time, e cited 
the attention of the philosophic world, as that ¢ mag- 
ort 
ment t of het has been done in this department of scientific 
inquiry. 
