Keiv Photomelrkal Telescope. — Cure for Gout. 3 75 



NEW PHOTO.MKTRICAL TELESCOPE. 



Dr. Brewster of Edinburgh has invented a photometrica! 

 telescope, the primary object of which is to ascertain the 

 relative brightness of the fixed stars, though it is capable of 

 measuring the relative intensities of all other lights. With- 

 out any additional apparatus, it becomes a micrometer for 

 measuring the distance of any two stars comprehended iii 

 the field of viewj or the angle subtended bv any two lumi- 

 nous points. 



SINGULAR CURE FOR THE GOuT. 



jM. Cadet de V'aux, in his Journal d'Kconoraic Rurale, 

 mentions the following as a fact : 



" A ladv above eighty years of age, whom I have the 

 honour of knowing intimately, was attacked with rheu- 

 matic gout thirty years aeo. It seized the whole body ; her 

 pains were excessive ; and during six weeks the efforts of 

 art to relieve her were ineficclual ; when a friend of the lady 

 mentioned the cure of a similar disorder by drinking enor- 

 mous quantities of hot water, to the amount of forty-eight 

 glasses in the space of twelve hours. The severity of the 

 pains the lady endured determined her to make the exjicri- 

 ment, and she set about taking, every quarter of an hour, a 

 cup containing seven or eight ounces of hot water (not 

 merely uar77i, as this occasions vomiting, an eflcct that i3 

 not required). Thirty glasses were found sufficient to re- 

 move the pains, as it were by enchantment. She then 

 stopped, and fell into a profound sleep, which she had not 

 enjoyed for a long time before. Nothing of the disorder 

 remained, except a sense of weight in one arm ; but dreading 

 a relapse, she determined, aiter a fortnight, to repeat the 

 operation, and carried it on this occasion to forty glasses j 

 when hunger, and a desire to sleep, put a stop to the expe- 

 riment. From this time the cure was complete. 



"About fifteen y^-'ars afterwards, the same lady, then sixty- 

 five years old, had a new attack of her former disease, with 

 an entire loss of the use of her limbs : she had recourse to 

 her former remedy of hot water, and viith (he same success 

 as before. From that lime slic lias had no return of the 

 discai^c, and at present enjovs a good slate of health." 



M. Gricbcl, 



