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up in a wood, was almos^ immediately taken ill. He was 

 conveyed to his parents in a dying state, and, from certain 

 circumstances, four days elapsed before he was visited bv a 

 medical practitioner. A Dr. Dufour having been sent for, 

 he found the child in the following state : Countenance of a 

 ghastly paleness ; clammy sweat over tlie body ; eyes open 

 and fixed, exhibiting the opaque cornea only ; belly flat and 

 hard; the jaws spasmodically closed, so as to prevent all 

 food from being swallowed ; the motion of the heart 

 scarcely perceptible. Dr. Dufour immediately broke two of 

 the front teeth, and administered through the aperture a 

 mixture of sulphuric ether and syrup of orange flowers: the 

 body of the patient was then placed among the dried leaves 

 of tansv, dulcamara, jasquiama ; and the belly was rubbed 

 with oil of chamomile, camphor, alcohol, and ammonia, 

 mixed up together: every thing was done with a view to 

 heat the patient. This mode of treatment had the desired 

 success; and the child, after swallowing about an ounce of 

 ether, and the same quantity of syrup, completely reco- 

 vered. 



M. Alexander Kis, of Pest in Hungary, has recently in- 

 vented an universal alphabet, or species of pasigraphy ap- 

 plicable to all lancuages. At a public exhibition before the 

 members of the various learned bodies at Pest, M. Kis 

 made an application of his invention to the Lord's prayer, 

 which was read in Greek and English by a person present, 

 and immediately committed to writing with the new alpha- 

 bet, so as to be read with facility by every person present. 



Mr. Bakewell will commence a Course of Geological 

 Lectures in .March at Willis's Rooms, King-Street, St. 

 James's; designed to illustrate the Geology and Mineralogy 

 of England, and particularly intended to direct the atten- 

 tion of landed proprietors to the neglected mineral treasures 

 on their own estates. Mr. Bakewell also intends shortly 

 to publish in one volume octavo a Work entitled Outlines 

 of Geology, with Observations on the Geology of England. 



Jileleorological Observations made at Clapton Jrom 

 January 17 to February 11, 1813. 



Jan. 17. — Cloudy and cold wind. SE. 



Jan. 18. — Cloudy and raw wind. SE. 



Jan, 19. — Cold and cloudy; the range of the thermo- 

 meter is not above two degrees, nor has it been for many 

 days much more. 



Jan. '20. — Cold cloudy day; wind E. The range of the 

 thermometer was only 3". Jan, 



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