390 Hydrophobia. — Natural Hislory. 



to state the process of manufacturing that article, — the means 

 of presening the quality, — and what treatises in the English or 

 French language exist on that subject, or on baking bread in 

 general. G. V. 



[We recoinmen(! to our correspondent a perusal of tlie Ficnch work of 

 the cektratcd clicinist JM. Parnientier on the subject of baking. — Edit.] 



DRYING-STOVK. — OVEN. — STEAM APPARATUS. — CHEMICAL 

 AFFINITY. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 

 Sir, — I shall l>e much obliged to any of your intelligent read- 

 ers, to inform me of the most oaconomical and convenient mode 

 of constructing a drying-stove on a small scale, where the heat 

 required is above 212' Fahrenheit. What is the degree of heat 

 applied in the drying of malt ? and, that for the drying of wheat 

 now much practised in consetiuence of its unripe state? What 

 is the most oeconomical construction for an oven for baking of 

 bread, and to svhat degree of heat sliould it be raised before the 

 dough be introduced ? Is it important that it be air-tight for 

 the baking of bread — and that a stream of air pass through for 

 the cooking of meat ? What is the most approved construction 

 of an apparatus for heating liquids, and drying substances by 

 steam, on a small scale, calculated for a laboratory or kitchen ; 

 and can such apparatus be obtained in London ready fitted up, 

 and of whom ? O. C. 



HYDROPHOBIA. 



A Dublin practitioner states, that he has seen the symptoms 

 of hydrophobia checked by the application of a tourniquet. A 

 girl was bitten in the foot, and hydrophobia supervened ; Dr. 

 Stokes applied a tourni([uet to her thigh, and the symptoms instant- 

 ly subsided. His intention was to amputate the limb, but it was 

 opposed by other medical attendants. One of this physician's 

 pupils considers hydrophobia, like trismus, to be a spasmodic 

 disease, which mav be cured by the judicious application of tur- 

 pentine with other antispasmodics. The effect of the tour- 

 niquet seems to favour the plan of bleeding ad deliquium. 



ARRIVAL OF SOME NON-DESCRIPT ANIMALS IN LONDON. 



Four new and nondescript animals are now exhibiting in the 

 King's Mews Riding-House: they seem to be an extraordinary 

 species of deer, lately arrived from North America. The follow- 

 ing is a sketch of their natural history. 



As these new quadrupeds are natives of North America, which 

 has now been discovered for more than three centuries past, it 

 must necessarily excite wonder, that neither the horns nor the 

 skill of such a fine animal, nor its description, have ever before 



reached 



