Neiv Planet.— New Method of curing Tctamis . 371 

 • The memoirs on the above subject must be transmitted 

 i>efore the month of October 1807 to the counsellor of state 

 Mezler, at Sicgmaringen. 



LXV, Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



THE NEW PLANET. 



Professor Bode took advantage of the fine weather be- 

 tween the 23cl of April and the 3th of May to view the new 

 planet Vesta, which- -he did nine times at Berlin, from the 

 royal observatory, with tbc mural quadrant. On the 5th 

 ofMay at 9'^ 2' 56" mean time, its right ascension was 17S° 

 29' 36", and northern declination 12^* 35' 49". 



NEW METHOD OF CURING TF.TANUS. 



The following new method of curing those dreadful con- 

 vulsions, whicircarry off «o many brave wounded soldiers, has 

 been practised in the -hospitals of Germany with great suc- 

 cess. It was first resorted to by the late M. Slutz, a phy- 

 sician of eminence in Suabla, and he was led to this impor- 

 tant discovery from the analogy of a simple fact. M. Hum- 

 boldt hatl announced, in his work upon the nerves, that on 

 •treating the nervous fibre altcrualely with opium and eav- 

 bonate^of potash, he made it pass five or six times from ike 

 highest degree of irritability to a stiite of perfect asth.enia. 

 The method of M. Stutz, who has been employed with the 

 <rrcatest success in the German hosjiitals, consisted in an 

 alternate int<irnal application of opium and carbonate ot 

 potash. It has been seen tliat when 36 grains of opium, 

 administered in the space of 24 hours, produce no effect, 

 the patient was considerably relieved by 10 grains more of 

 opium, employed after having given Uie alkaline solution. 

 This new IreatmeiU of tetanus is worthy of the aclention ol 

 medical men. 



I.ECTURliS. 



Mr. Brookes will commence his 'fiiunmer Course of 

 Lectures on Atiatomy, Physiology and Surgery, on Satur- 

 day the Olh of .hme, at 7 i" the Alorning, at {\\c Tlicatre of 

 Anatomy, Blcnhelm-Strcct, Great Mailbnrough-Strect. 



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