264 Notices respecting New Pulfidations. 
before the powers of life were sufficiently established, 
and these bled very freely*. 
Then also a stimulating enema was thrown up. with: some 
tincture of aloes in it, to invite the aorta descendens. 
Cataplasms were likewise, for the same purpose, applied to 
the fect. . 
At night I saw my patient again, greatly restored but 
still very insensible ; and having got down a. draught with 
valerian, and, the volatile tincture of valerian, mixed 
in some camphor julep and cinnamon water, the. cata- 
plasm and blister across the thorax I ordered. to be removed 5 
but another was placed, along the nape-of the neck, he 
T left him. I was informed os his nurse, that he was rest- 
less that night, occasionally convulsed, had some inter- 
vals of sleep : but when I saw. him in the, morning, he wa 
perfectly himself, yet had. no recollection of: any Dae 
that had passed; the whole. narrative seemed to. him a, 
dream ; he felt. sore all over; was very thankful to find 
himself in existence, and eyen could smile at what appear- 
ed to him a strange event, and which. had brought him, 
actually on the very brink of eternity, but without any re- 
membered sensation. : 
XLII. Notices respecting New Publications. 
Tur late Mr. Russell, celebrated amongst men of science 
for the production of the lunar globe, left at his death two 
Junar planispheric drawings, the result of numberless tele- 
scopic observations scrupulously measured by a micrometer: 
one of which drawings exhibits the Junar disk in a state of 
direct opposition to the sun, when the eminences and de- 
pressions are undetermined, and every intricate part, arising 
from colour, form, or inexplicable causes, is surprisingly 
developed and exquisitely delineated ; the other, of precisely 
* John Hunter s says, “* I would by all means discourage blood-letting, which 
IL think weakens the animal principle and life itself, consequently lessens 
both the power and disposition to action.”—Phil. Trans. 
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