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any medicine getting to that part, except what firft can enter 
the blood. Mercury has been fuccefsfully employed; but it 
produces fo great a derangement of the general health, that 
a fubftitute is certainly advifable. Can the abforbents of the 
brain be equally excited by vital air? 
Lydia Johnfon, zt. 13, living at No. 5, Hufband- 
fireet, after a putrid fever became perfectly blind, and 
had frequent fits, evidently arifing from oppreffion of the 
brain. Various means had been employed without the leaft 
advantage. I referred her to Meffrs. Wathen and Phipps, 
that they might fee the cafe. Under the inhalation of vital 
air, with the aid of bark’ and fteel, the fits foon gave way; 
and afterward, finding the air produced no mifchief, I in- 
creafed the quantity one day.to twelve quarts, mixed with 
three times that quantity of atmofpheric, and almoft imme- 
diately after the inhalation fhe had a dawning of fight, and 
going home fhe did nothing but cry out, Mama, mama! I 
fee now every thing. The cure has remained permanent 
above a year, and I faw her the other day in perfect health 
and fpirits, 
INTELLIGENCE, 
AND . 
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
In the courfe of the prefent month (November) the Second 
‘Part of the TranfaGtions for the year 1799 was delivered to 
the Members. The contents are:—An account. of the dif- 
fection of an hermaphrodite dog: to which are prefixed, fome 
obfervations on hermaphrodites in general. By Everard Home, 
Efq. F.R.S.—An enquiry concerning the weight afcribed 
to heat. By Benjamin Count Rumford, F.R.S.M.R.1. A. &e. 
—An account of fome experiments on the fecundation of ve- 
getables: ina letter from Thomas Andrew Knight, Elq. to 
the 
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