Surgery, Be. tir 
means with the /happieft effeéts.. To make known this dif-. 
covery, of fo much importance to thofe nations that carry om 
trade inthe Levant, and with the coaft of Barbary, Count 
Berchtold’ refolved to publith the procefs;» of which 3000 
copies have been printed in the German, as many in: the: 
Italian, and 6000 in the Turkifh language. The work 
contains an account of the method of -ufing the oil, with 
fome obfervations on the regimen proper fer patients at- 
tacked by this difeafe; and an’ Appendix, contaiming cer- 
tifieates of cures already performed, and a lift of the ‘places 
where the above method has been praétifed with fuccefsin 
Ina little traG& jut publithed by Dr. Tazwell (fecretary 
to Mr. Geary, the late American minifter,) at:Paris,.arnew 
method is'announced of empleying the nitrous/acid; m the 
fyphilis, which we are informed has been ufed with» great 
fuccefs at Paris: As: it is therexconceived to be amimprove=! 
ment upon ‘the prefent modes of adminiftering oxygen: 
fyphilitic ulcers, &c. and as the practice with the nitrous 
aeid is at prefenta fubject of fome coutroverfy, if may not 
beunworthy' of the attention of our medical readers..! Dr. 
Tazwell’s formula is as follows: |! 
Oxygenated Ointment (invented Ly lyon). by 
Fk. Take hogs lard lib. j. melt it over a flow fire, and then 
add of nitric acid (of 32 degrees) 3 ij. Keep carefully ftir-. 
ring the mixture over the fire with a glafs rod till it begins 
to boil, and then fet it by to cool. i 
“It is of great benefit in cafes of iy philitic apres bans 
and pfora. » 
- The author adds the following note: ‘This preferi cafiaia 
was! communicated to me in the month of Prairial, laft year,: 
by my worthy friend the inventor, who has fince publifhed, 
it'in his work entitled E/fai fur les proprietes medicinales de 
Poxygen, which has juft appeared. 
M. Herbolt, a eminent accoucheur at Copenhagen, fays 
he, has made a difcovery highly interefting to humanity. 
Repeated 
