188 Fumgation, &c. 
slightly coloured oil, which must be freed from sulphuric 
acid by washing. It is acid and astringent to the taste. It 
reddens litmus paper. It burns readily, giving out sulpbur- 
reous fumes. Its odour differs from. that of sulphuret of 
carbon, and is decomposed by heat. Its compounds have 
been termed Hydro-carbo-sulphates. | 
Ann. of Phil. new serves. 
Articles of Foreign Literature and Science, extracted and translated by 
Professor GRiscom. 
8. A work has been published in France, by M. Brard, 
late director of the mines of Servoz, entitled Mineralogie 
Appliquée Aux Arts. It is in 3 vols. 8vo. with plates, price 
21 franes. 
The style and arrangement is rather severely criticised in 
the Rev. Ency. but the reviewer admits that it contains 
much useful matter, facts and observations hitherto but lit- 
tle attended to, and that the author has evinced extensive 
knowledge in many branches of physical science and of the 
useful arts. 
_ 9. Pumigation—The Swedish public have been much 
interested lately in a new medical discovery of considera- 
ble importance. It had been known for some time that 
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ing for itself, this process and its results, sent for Anderson 
to Stockholm, and engaged him, on the payment of his ex- 
Six new patients are now under the Operation of the new 
remedy. M. De Weigel, president of the College, and 
several other physicians of the city, who have observed this 
curative process with the greatest attention, bestow upon it 
* just tribute of praise, and have induced the Directors of 
