19* Klaproth. — Deaths. 



ration prcferves thofe who clean thenl from ccrtsin difealcs/ 

 Tbefe people aflert that they never know any thing of the 

 itch} that they are fo fecure from it, that they can flee]^ 

 "with itchy perfons without any danger of infection ; and 

 that itchy perfons who undertake their labour, get cured in 

 the courfe of a few days. When thefe people fcratcih or cut 

 their tleih, the Wounds heal up in twenty-four hours;, it is 

 remarked alfo that they are never' troubled with chilblains or 

 tetters, and that they h;)ve al\vay3 a found fmooth fkin. 



Thefe obfervations of C. Grille feem to confirm what ha? 

 been faid in regard to employing vital air for extirpating the 

 finall-pox. 



KLAPRdTH. 



The eminent merits of Klaproth as a chemical analyfer. 

 to repeat the cxpreffion of Kirwan, of the mo(t coufummate 

 fkill and accuracy, are acknowledged on all hands, and too 

 well known to rctjuire encomium : it will therefore give our 

 chemical readers great pleafure to hear, that a tranjlation of 

 his ylnah'tical KJfays towards promol'mg the Chemical KjwJj- 

 ledge of FoJJlls is now in the prefs. AVe underftand it is the 

 performance of the tranllator of Gren's Principles of JSIoJem 

 Chemijhy fyjleinatically arranged^ of which we took notice 

 in a furmtr liumber. 



DEATHS. 



At Marburg, on the ijth of May, in the 47th year of his 

 age, Leonard John Charles Jufti, public profeflbr of philo- 

 fophy and profeflbr of theology. 



At Gottingen, on the 17th of the fame month, in the 

 40th year of his age, of a tit of apoplexy, after fufferine 

 many years from hypochondriac af^eci^ions, Chriftopher Gir- 

 tanner, M.D. He was a native of Swifferland, and was 

 the firll chemift in Germany who adopted the new chemical 

 dodlrine of the French. In 1791, he publifli'cd at Berlin a 

 work entitled Neue ChemiJ'che NomenUaiur fur die D'aitfchc 

 fprache ; The New Chemical Nomcticlature in the German 

 language ; and the next year. The Elements 6f the Antiphlo- 

 giftic Chemiftry. He was the author alfo of feveral other 

 works, and of a great many papers on chemiftry and other 

 fubjedsj printed in different jourhals. 



