386 Intelligence and Miscellames. 
sively employed, some years since, in consequence of the re- 
mmendation of Dr. Chrestien of Montpelier. Contradict- 
ory statements of its value have been since published by phy- 
sicians in different parts of Europe and America. Magendie, 
in the latter editions of his formulary is unfriendly to the uses 
of gold, as a remedy in syphilis, but it does not appear 
that he judges of it by his own experience. Dr. Le Grand, 
of Amiens, in an octavo volume, published in 1828, main- 
tains the opinion that the employment of gold is the most 
efficacious and least dangerous means of combating syphi- 
lis. ‘The volume contains a mass of near 400 observations, 
all favorable to its en:ployment. 
r. Chrestien, has also addressed, within the past year, a 
letter to Magendie, on the different modes of preparing and 
administering gold, 8vo. 79 pp. 2 fr. 
“This pamphlet,” says the reviewer, “written with the 
dignity worthy of a practitioner, almost a septuagenarian, 
written to a brother professor, placed in so elevated a sphere, 
is of such a nature as to induce the honorable academician, 
to modify the opinion which he may hereafter give of aurif- 
erous preparations. We have no doubt that if he will make 
trial of it, he will become one of its partisans and most zeal- 
‘ous defenders.” —Rev. Ency. Nov. 1828. 
33. A Congress of Savans, assembled on the 18th of Sep- 
tember, 1828, at Berlin, under the favor and patronage of 
the King of Prussia. The whole number assembled on the 
occasion was four hundred and sixty-seven, of whom three 
hundred and twenty-four were Prussians, one hundred and 
nine Germans, and thirty-four were from different States of 
Europe, including France, England, Holland, and Russia. 
The session was opened by a discourse from Alexander 
De Humboldt, President, in which he stated the object of 
the convocation, and pointed out the advantages of such a 
union of the friends of science, from different parts of the 
world, and its influence on the discovery and propagation of 
useful truths. 
were appointed on Astronomy, Geography, Chemistry, Min- 
eralogy, Botany, Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Medi- 
