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the deleterious effects of preparations of tin, zinc, silver, gold, of 
the concentrated mineral acids; the caustic alkalies, phosphorus, 
cantharides, lead, and iodine; together with an appendix on the 
antidotes of corrosive sublimate and arsenic. The author explains 
with care, and from new and exact experiments, the physiological 
effects of these substances, whether swallowed, or injected into the 
veins. 
“Milk, according to M. Orfila, is the antidote to muriate of tin 
common salt, to nitrate of silver or lunar caustic ; calcined mag- 
nesia, to the acids, provided it be administered very quickly ; the 
sulphates of soda and magnesia, when taken in great quantity and 
repeatedly, stop the effects of the salts of lead and barytes; and acetic 
acid is the remedy against the action of the alkalies. 
M. Orfila shows that charcoal, which had been recommended 
against corrosive sublimate and arsenic, has no effect. It is of great 
importance to know the inefficacy of a remedy against evils so rapid 
that there is no time to bestow upon them any thing useless. 
M. Huzard has carefully informed the Class of the progress and 
termination of that terrible disease which has destroyed most of the 
horned cattle in those provinces into which the war brought its 
ravages, It is a bilious and putrid fever, very contagious, which, 
though it does not exist in Hungary, is always produced when the 
cattle of that country are carried to a distance in the train of armies. 
The total interruption of communication was the only efficacious 
preservative ; but no remedy was capable of saving the individuals 
attacked. Fortunately their flesh was not unhealthy, which dimi- 
nished a little the ruin of their proprietors. 
The same member has read a notice on a disease which had broken 
out among the cattle in the village of Rosny, and which different 
circumstances led the people to consider as hydrophobia. He ascer- 
tained that it was only a gangrenous quincy. 
M. le Marquis de Cubieres, correspondent, has composed a work, 
the manuscript of which he has submitted to the Class, It treats of 
the culture of those gardens which we call improperly English 
gardens, though the celebrated comic actor Dutresny passes for 
having presented the first model of them to France towards the end 
of the seventeenth century. The author collects all the aids of 
botany and natural philosophy to an art, which has long amused his 
leisure hours, and explains them in the elegant style naturally in- 
Spired by his subject, and suitable to those to whom chiefly he 
estines his book. 
M. Tollard, farmer and merchant at Paris, has proposed some 
compositions of artificial meadows, formed of certain plants which 
he associates in consequence of the habit that they have of growing 
together, and witha view to the different soils, and to the qualities 
which these plants communicate to the hay. ‘These groupes _re- 
quire to be tried for some years before they can be recommended for 
practice. a 
- The same author has presented a history of the useful vegetables, 
