Dr. Thornton on Pneumcdlc Medicine. S3T 



stance shows them to be in a middle class between the de- 

 populated and waste, and the populous and highly culti- 

 vated districts. 



In the present distribution of districts, the dearest and 

 most productive are Burdwan, 24 pergunnahs, Nuddca, 

 and town of Calcutta ; the cheapest and least productive 

 arc Ramghur, Silhct, Cooch-Behar, and Tippcrah. AVe 

 use no information from these districts in computing the 

 prime cost of productions and price of labour. 



LIX. Twentieth Comnwnication from. Dr. Thornton, 



relative to Pneumatic Medicine. 



To Mr. TiUock. 



Jan. 17, 1S05. 

 DEAR SIR ^'°- '• Hinde Street, Maiiches:er Sq'iarc. 



JL am happy when I can employ my pen for the promotion 

 of the most valuable of the sciences, discoveries relative to 

 the removal of disease, and the restoration of health. That 

 the newly discovered gases deserve the attention of the 

 philosophic world at large, and that of the practitioner of 

 medicine in particular, the several facts f have recorded 

 seem indeed to w^arrant, and 1 shall in the progress of your 

 magazine be able to add considerably to the quantity of 

 evidence already adduced. 



Case of a lad leg cured hy vital air. 

 John Richards, set. 12, son of a carpenter in North Ro\\-, 

 Park Street, INov. 7, 1S03, was in company with some 

 boys, near a stable, w hen a lad threw down upon them a 

 truss of straw from a loft, which pitched upon master 

 Richards, and he fell to the ground, and con,'»idcrably 

 truised the left leg. This confmed him to the house for a 

 fortnight. The leg soon became discoloured, and was 

 much swelled, and discharged a corrosive humour. Vari- 

 ous applications were employed, which only assuaged a 

 little the pain, but the disease went on increasing, and the 

 lameness continued ; it looked angiy along with the black- 

 ness, and showed erysipelatous inflammation*, the fore- 

 runner frequently of gangrene or mortilication. Llndar 

 these alarming circumstances, about the latter end ot Fe- 

 bruary, he was placed under Mr. Moor, sou of the late 



• Mr. Moor cxplaitied this to the mother of the dv.W, hy calling it 

 St. Anthony'!, fire. 



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