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of the iinanimalized nutritive juices to the urinary organ, 

 which alters alfo the gaflric, pancreatic, bihary, &c. juices. 

 It feems to be peculiar to niufcular temperaments. Its feat 

 is placed in the fyftem of digeftion ; and the urinary organ, 

 by the excefs of its evacuations, fupplies the want of other 

 excretions and fccretions which are fufpended. 



The urine which pafles, as alreadv faid, has the vinous 

 and acclous fermentation, gives alcohol of a difagreeable 

 odour, a cryftallized fugar, the nature of which is not yet 

 well kno\vn, inftead of t/rre, uric and benzoic acid, which 

 it ought to contain. Ammoniacal and phofphoric falls fliow 

 themfelves in it only in very fmall quantity; the blood of 

 phtyfuric patients is exceedingly ferous, and contains fcarcely 

 any ammoniacal and phofplioric falts. Thefe phoenomena 

 furnifh the following indications : — 



ift. To remove the fpafmodic ftate. 



ad. To reftore to the nutritive juices the principles of ani- 

 malization. 



And, to accomplifh thefe ends, to fele£l the food and re- 

 medies from fubrtances which contain azot and phofphoric 

 falts.. ' 



From thefe indications C. Nicolas and Dr. Guedeville 

 have prefcribcd to the fubjeils of their different obfervations, 

 an animal regimen, compofed of fat meat and milky beve- 

 rages, in which phofphate of foda is diffolved. As medi- 

 cines, they employed boles formed with an aqueous extract 

 of opium and cinchona ; fometimes alfo mufk. This treat-, 

 jneut was attended with complete fuccefs *. 



GEOLOGY. 



Ohfervatlojis made on the Summit of Mont-PtrJu. 



The beauty of fites exhibited by mountains, and in partis 

 cular the hope of reading on thofe awful maffes the hiftory 

 of the revolutions which they feem to have witneffed, or at 

 leaft of their rcfults, continually attraft towards their fum- 

 mits thofc who have once experienced the charm of thefe 

 meditations, which might be called antediluvian. 



C. Ramond, whofe particular lUidy it has been to make us 

 acquainted with the Pyrenees, and particularly Mont-Perdu, 

 has confirmed by a new tour, that this mountain overlooks 

 all the furrounding peaks. 



* Thofc who have feen Dr. Rollo's and Mr. Cruickfliank's valu.ible 

 works on the Diabetes Mcllitus, will be not a little furprifed to find them 

 not even quoted in the preceding notice, though they prefent every one o£ 

 tfie fafts that have been noticed in it as pew !. i Edit. 



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