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interesting observations on medicine and surgery. One of them 

 would have certainly been considered as miraculous in those tiipes 

 when a pious credulity was pleased to see in each event the imme- 

 diate intervention of a divinity — the cure of a man whose breast 

 had been traversed by the pole of a carriage.* Another is of great 

 importance, beeause it gives hopes of being able to cure hydro- 

 phobia — perhaps the most desperate disease to which mankind is 

 subject. A man in a well marked hydrophobia was cured in India 

 by bleeding, carried each time to deliquium, and repeated when- 

 ever there appeared a recurrence of the symptoms. The import- 

 ance of such a discovery was so much the more felt because a few 

 days before Baron Percy had read to the Class the frightful event 

 which had taken place last October at Bar-sur-Ornain, where in a 

 single morning a mad wolf bit more than 20 persons, all of whom 

 died in consequence. A third observation, made at Geneva, and 

 communicated by M. Pictet, was not so fortunate : a soldier having 

 all the symptoms of croup underwent tracheotomy without success. 



M. Pictet has likewise given us an interesting account of the 

 plague which existed in the Russian port Odessa, drawn up by M. 

 Charles Pictet, his nephew, who contributed successfully to stop 

 its progress. 



M. Portal has published an important work on the Nature and 

 Treatment of Diseases of the Liver, in which he has communicated 

 the result of his long experience en the disorders of an organ the 

 great influence of which in health and disease is well expressed by 

 the motto of the author — Ouanto magis ad sanilatem prodesf, tavio 

 el deterlus in morbis qfficitvr. 



Our respectable associate M. Tenon, who, notwithstanding a 

 delicate temperament, and a youth which did not promise him long 

 life, has preserved by care the faculties of his body and mind so 

 long beyond the time allotted to the generality of mankind, has 

 chosen to leave us the secrets which he has so successfully practised 

 on himself. His Offering to Old People of some Methods of Pro- 

 longing their Lives, is a code of longevity dictated by science and 

 experience ; but to draw the same good effects from it as the author, 

 we must, like him, join to it a tranquil situation, agreeable occupa- 

 tions, and the calm of a beneficent and pure mind. 



Article XII. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE; AND NOTICES OF SUBJECTS 

 CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE. 



I. Lectures. 



Mr. Singer will commence a Course of Lectures on Electricity 

 and Electro-Chemistry at the Russell Institution early in January. 



» This alludes to the well-known case of Mr. Tipple, which took place two 

 ears ago in the neighbourhood of Loudon. — T. 



