438 On Mr. Goring's new Solvent for Calculi. [Dec. 



Nov. 16. — The wind at noon blew very hard and squally from 

 W. N. W. The weather clear. The needle vibrated at intervals 

 13' 25". 



Rain fallen 



[Between noon of (he 1st Oct. j 

 1 Between noon of the 1st Nov' 



2-126 inches. 



Comparison of the Variation in the Years 1813 and 1814. 



\ Morning 

 April p N-:«>n . .'. 



C Evening. 



C Morning 

 May s Noon . . . 



v Evening. 



C Morning 

 June <Nooii . . . 



( Evening. 



(Morning 

 July <Nonn . . . 



( Evening. 



f Morning 

 Aug. < Noon . . . 



( Evening. 



(Morning 

 Sept. <Noon . .. 



(Evening. 



(Morning 

 Oct. 1 Soon . . . 



( Evening. 



1813. 



24° 09' 

 24 21 



24 

 24 



15 

 12 



2-4 15 



24 22 



18" 



12 



25 



02 



54 



47 



35 



17 



04 



32 



04 



43 



55 



32 



06 



46 



32 



04 



41 



53 



1814. 



24" 12' 53" 



24 23 53 



24 15 30 



24 12 49 



24 22 13 



24 16 14 



24 13 10 



24 22 48 



24 16 18 



24 13 29 



24 23 44 



24 17 00 



24 14 13 



21 23 48 



21 16 31 



24 14 33 



24 23 17 



21 16 50 



24 14 08 



24 21 45 



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41 



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17 



42 



16 



23 



16 



45 



46 



33 



08 



Article IX. 



Observations on Mr. Goring s new Solvent for Calculi. By Mr. 

 F. I. Aroxiger, Surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary. 



SIR, 37 Camomile-street, Nov. 12, 1814. 



Having in your Journal for the present month read a paper 

 by Mr. C. R. Goring, On a new Solvent for all sorts of Urinary 

 Concretions, I cannot resist offering the following remarks. It 

 is not my intention to consider the power of galvanic electricity 

 in decomposing concretions, but to abject to the manner in which 

 that agent is recom.nended to be employed in such cases. 



Mr. Goring must surely be unacquainted with practical surgery 

 to suppose that the introduction of an instrument through the 

 urethra is a greater evil than that of making a puncture into the 

 urinary bladder. 



If that organ be opened at all under such circumstances, would 

 not the opening be made large enough to extract the stone ? 



Can it be conceived that a person with a puncture in the 



