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of Guvton de Morvcau's antis'^ptic process. In Poland 

 the oxygenized muriatic acid fumigations were resorted to 

 in the military hospitals with the greatest effect : not only 

 were various putrid effluvia dispelled in this manner, but 

 the vermin of all descriptions wiih which the patients were 

 infested were extirpated. M. de Ijaborde, chief physician 

 in the marine department at Antwerp, on the 1 8th of Oc- 

 tober 180S, communicates the following account to M. de 

 Morveau : — " During the raoing of the present epidemy, 

 which suddenly attacked a great number of persons, we 

 were under the necessity of bringini the patients fioin the 

 galleys into the usual hospitals- In one hail, which was 

 badly aired, and where numerous cases of dysentery and 

 ataxic fevers corrupted the air, I had recourse to the oxy- 

 genized fumigations, and succeeded in preventing the con» 

 tagion from spreading; the last-mentioiicd patients them- 

 selves were not even attacked. Finally, in a ward where 

 there were forty or fifty severe cases of dysentery, a form 

 under which several ataxic quotidian fevers are concealed, 

 and which are very prevalent at this season of the year, a 

 few fumigations were sufficient to banish the bad smell, 

 and no disgust was occasioned." [The same process is 

 adopted (in preference to Dr. Carmichael Smith's) on board 

 the squadron in the Scheldt ; it is also used in the various 

 naval hospitals ; and sometimes great advantages are derived 

 by directing these fumigations on putrid, gangrenous, or 

 atonic ulcers, by means of a funnel.] 



REMEDY FOR TAPEWORM. 



Common spirits of turpentine have been recently admi- 

 nistered by several medical gentlemen of the metropolis, 

 with great effect, in the cure of tapeworm. The doses 

 given were in some cases so large as two ounces ; but those 

 of half an ounce at a time, repeated twice a dav, were gre- 

 uerally found to answer the purpose of expelling the whole, 

 or at least the greater part of the aninial, at one discharge. 

 The vehicle in which the turpentine was administered was 

 generally honey. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



Sir, — Tt is a fact known to most good housevtives, and 

 should be kiK-wn to all, that if they begin to grate a nut- 

 meg from the stalk end it will prove hollow throughout, 

 whereas if the same nutmeg had been grated from iheoiher 

 end it would have proved solid and sound to the last. The 

 reason of this appears to be, that the centre of a nutmeg 



consists 



