27* Intelligence and Mifcellanerius Articles. 



human art, which the heakhful functions of the anima'! 

 economy continually form by the endiefsly varied combina- 

 tion of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and azot ? Is not this 

 virus, thus compounded, decompofable, probably, by the affi- 

 nities of many acid and faline fubftances, provided thcfe fub- 

 llances might be brought into mixture with it in all thofe 

 parts of the fyftem in which it is aftive, and without being 

 themfelves previouOy altered by decompofition or new com- 

 binations? Are not the aftivity with vyhrch mercury pene- 

 trates throughout the whole body, and that remarkable de- 

 gree in which, in every one of its combinations, it preferves 

 its primitive energies — are not tbefe the caufes of its being a 

 fpecific for the decompofition and entire expulfion of the 

 venereal virus? Does it not then a-rtoi^i/y appear, if oxy- 

 gen, or perhaps nitric acid, without decompofition, without 

 new combination, might be brought in fufficient quantity, 

 and for a fufficient length of time, into mixture with all the 

 venereal virus that is at any time in the fyftem, that the 

 virus might be entirely decompofed, and the difeafe com- 

 pletely healed ? 



INTELLIGENCE, 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLE:^. 



PRIZE aUESTIONS. . 



X HE Eleftoral Jablonfky Society of the Sciences at 

 Leipfic has announced the following prize queftions for 

 the year 1800: 



H'ljhry. — A ftort fketch of the hiftory of the trade of 

 Poland. 



Mathematici, — An hiftorlcal view, quoting the authorities 

 of the various purpofcs to which the laws of attraction have 

 been applied fince the time of Newton to the prefent period. 



Tlrtjical EcQ?iomj, — Of the influence of the atmofpherc 



on 



