Use n/yiarci Mil/: in Tcenici.—Ecaljj CnUingoflVheal. 151 



usual course of laj/iiig, causing the retention of* an egg for ten 

 or fifteen days beyond the usual time, from which have resulted 

 alterations and pathological effects in the organs. Exercising 

 over the process a complete control, so as to direct it hourly, 

 daily, and weekly, he has graduated the obstacles, and haa 

 been able to calculate upon the results obtained, by combining- 

 what is owing both to the nisus formativus and to the obstacles 

 interposed. The 8th volume of the Mcmoires des Profcsseurs 

 du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle now in the press is to contain 

 M. Geoffrey's first memoir on his researches of this kind. 



USE OF MARE S MILK IN T.T.NIA. 



The German physicians have lately remarked beneficial ef- 

 fects from mare's milk in cases of taenia. Dr. Kortum of Stal- 

 berg relates the following case in Hufeland's Journal. A lady 

 between thirty and forty years of age had long suffered front 

 taenia, and several attempts to remove it had failed, wving to 

 the patient's great dislike to medicines, which caused every 

 thing of this kind to be instantly rejected by vomiting. Hav- 

 ing heard of several individuals that were cured by simply 

 drinking fresh-drawn mare's milk morning and evening, she 

 resolved to give it a trial. Having an opportmiity in autumn, 

 she drank two cups in the evening. Soon afterwards violent 

 pains commenced in her bowels, and continued dreadfully 

 severe during almost the wliole night. In the morning, how- 

 ever, she took one cup more, after which pains in her bowels 

 followed, but much less severe than before. In a few days a 

 long piece of dead and partly putrid taenia was discharged, 

 and in a short time afterwards another piece with the narrow 

 tapering end of the worm ; and with this all the symptoms 

 ceased. This peculiarity of mare's milk is the more remark- 

 able, as that of the cow seems to be agreeable to the worm, 

 and on being drunk merely alleviates the symptoms. — Phila- 

 delphia Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences, No. 6. 



FRENCH INQUIRIES RESPECTING THE EARLY CU'ITING OF 

 WHEAT. 



The subject of early cutting of wheat has lately been agitated 

 in Fi'ance : and at the sitting of the Central Society for tlie 

 Encouragement of Agriculture, Science, &c. of the northern 

 de))artinent, on tlie 2Gth of June 1822, a Report was read, con- 

 taining ausweis to cerUiin cjuestions on the subject. 1st. Is 

 not early-cut wlieatmore liable X.o injury Irom moths, [la frii^ne) 

 weevils, &.c. than tiuit cut perfectly ripe .^ 2d. Will it keep 



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