314 j4ntiqultles. — RemedTj for Apoplexy . 



in half volumes, one of which will appear every three 

 inonihs. The Diagrams will be printed in the text from 

 figures cut in wood, ll will be put to press as soon as such 

 a number of subscribers can be obtained as shall give the 

 editor a prospect of being indemnified for the expense 

 which must attend its publication. 



Mr. Parkinson's Third Volume of the Organic Remains 

 of a former World will be published in November. 



ANTiaUlTIES. 



While the workmen vere lately opening some ruins in 

 the venerable niansion of John Floyd, esq. near Rcdburn, 

 Oxfordshire, they discovered below the foundation of an 

 old wall a leaden box, measuring three feet in length by 

 two feet and a half in breadth, in perfect condition, and 

 perfecily secured by an antique kind of padlock, which was 

 not forced but with great difficulty. When opened, it con- 

 tained 72 copper medals, each weighing three ounces and 

 one quarter, all in a high state of preservation. The de- 

 vices on ihcm, which are throughout the same, are, on one 

 side, the figure of a dying warrior supported in the arms of 

 two men in complete armour, and several others standing 

 weeping round. In the back-ground, a battle raging j 

 the motto " Didce e.l deconim est pro palriu niori" sur- 

 rounding the whole. On the reverse a Roman triumph, 

 with no less than 1 15 figures. Along with the medals were 

 four beautiful lamps, made of a composition chiefly silver; 

 two small daggers, most curiously wrought; five human 

 figures in solid gold, supposed to represent the penates. — 

 There was also a woodeu box, contained in the leaden, 14 

 inches in length, apparently solid, which when exposed to 

 the air crumbled into dust. A mutilated scroll was dis- 

 covered, but too much disfigured by time for any of its con- 

 tents to be legible, save a few detached sentences which 

 are of an amatory description.'^ 



A REMEDY FOR APOPLEXY. 



M. Saae has lately stated in a memoir read to the Na- 

 tional Institute at Paris, the efficacy of flour volatile alkali 

 in cases of severe apoplexy. " For at least 40 years," says 

 he, '•' I have had oppori unities of witnessing the efiicacy of 

 volatile alkali, taken iniernally, as an immediate remedy for 

 •the apoplexy, it emploved on the first appearance of the dis- 

 ca;<e. One oi the keepers of my cabinet, a ged 72 years, robust, 

 though ihm and very sedate, was seized, while fasting, uith 



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