Miscellaneous Intelligence. 73 
The French Gazette of Health for November contains a de- 
tailed relation of the sufferings of a young girl of eight years 
old, into whose ear a spider had crawled. She experienced mo- 
mentarily a nervous fit resembling epilepsy, of which the strength 
gradually increased, impressing those around her with a fear that 
it would speedily become fatal. The sur geon, unable to extract 
the spider, poured oil of olives into the ear; hereupon she ex- 
perienced some convulsive movements, longer and more violent 
than those she had before ; and when they terminated she was 
quite relieved. S 
Professor Mangeli has published in the Milan Journal, a iong 
report upon the action of the venom of vipers. He states, 
as the result of his experience, that ammoniac is the only sove~ 
reign remedy for the bite of those reptiles, and that opium and 
musk, which have been hitherto prescribed by Italian physicians, 
have no certain effect. 
An Havanna paper of the 7th inst. mentions that an aged 
priest, in Guatimala, had lately applied himself to the produc- 
tion of opium in that province, and had succeeded to a degree 
that promised to make his discoveries a great national benefit. 
_ The Guatimala opium was said to be of a much superior quality 
to that obtamed from the Levant. 
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Cotton and indigo are said to have been successfully cultivated 
in the principality of Cintra, in Calabria, Nola, and other places 
in Italy. From the leaves of the latter plant, indigo of a qua- 
lity not inferior to the American is asserted to have been ex- 
tracted. . 
Dr. Adams has in the press his long projected work on the er- 
roneous opinions and consequent terrors usually entertained con- 
cerning hereditary diseases, Connected with the snbject are 
some remarks on the attempts at reducing cutaneous complaints 
to orders and classes, and the unnecessary revival of so great a 
number of exploded Greek terms. 
LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 
To William Pope, of the city of Bristol, perfumer, for an in- 
strument or instruments, to be used jointly or separately, for as- 
certaining a ship’s way at sea, and assisting in determining the 
longitude. —16th Nov. 1813.—6 months. 
To William Burge, of the city of Bristol, confectioner, for 
certain improvements in the construction of fire-places. —16th 
Nov,—2 months. 
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