384 Foreign Lateraiure and Science. 
that Iodine, besides its being endowed with the property of 
larly from the uterine vascular system, on which it would 
seem to exercise a direct action, excites the activity of the 
gastric functions, so that under its use the appetite is renew- 
ed and active, the work of digestion goes on with celerity 
and without inconvenience even in delicate females, and 
those with weak stomachs.—Lon. Med. and Phys. Jour. 
Articles of Foreign Literature and Science, extracted and translated by 
, Professor Griscom. 
11, Preservation of Anatomical Preparations.—Dr. Macart- 
ney of the University of Dublin employs for his anatomical 
preparations a solution of alum and nitre, which he finds, has 
the property of preserving natural appearances much better 
than spirits of wine, or any other fluid hitherto employed. 
he proportion of the two salts, and the strength of the so- 
lution must vary according to circumstances ; and in order 
wholly to impregnate the preparations the solution should be 
renewed from time to time. This solution is so highly an- 
tiseptic, that it destroys entirely, in a few days the fetor of 
the most putrid animal substances. | 
12. 4 Chain Bridge is in a state of forwardness, over the 
Menai an arm of the Irish Sea which separates Anglesea 
from N. Wales. It will have the unprecedented length of 
560 feet, between the two supports,one on each shore ; and 
its height above the water will be 126 feet, so that vessels 
may pass beneath it under full sail. The abutments are of 
masonry, surmounted by wood pyramids 50 feet high, over 
which the chains pass. ‘The bridge is 28 feet wide contain- 
ing a foot path of four feet wide in the middle. It will cost 
£70,000 sterling. ’ 
13, Vi egetable Analysis.—Dobereiner describes in his 
iy hytochimie Preumatique a little apparatus very convenient 
of aglass tube A of 4, 6 or9 lines in diameters, and from 4 
