198 Miscellaneous Facts and Observations. 



Karstew, two volumes, with the translator's annotations 

 (10 dollars). The Mineralogical Society at Jena has 

 begun to publish their transactions. Jena : 8vo. (1^ dol- 

 lars). The Editor is Professor Lenz. 



" Vaccination is generally introducing. A new re- 

 medy against intermittent fevers, viz., simple joiners* 

 glue {colla in Italian), has been discovered by Seguin 

 and Gautieri (the latter a young and amiable physician, 

 who was several years in Germany, and is now at No- 

 vara, in Italy), or any other gluten, such as from calves- 

 feet, &c. It is given before the paroxysm, and is said 

 to perform wonders. Gautieri, and, perhaps, twenty 

 other Italian physicians (in the Milanese, &c., where 

 these fevers are endemical, especially where rice is cul- 

 tivated), have published the results of their experiments. 

 Bischof, at Berlin, has translated their memoirs into Ger- 

 man, and the Prussian physicians have confirmed the 

 effect. In order to make the gluten palatable, they join 

 to it some cinnamon, or other aroma. English and 

 Dutch glue were found equally good. This may be a 

 salutary practice in many American marshy places. The 

 glue ought not to be too much diluted with \A\iter : two 

 ounces are sufficient to dissolve eleven or twelve drams 

 of glue, which should be broken into small pieces, and 

 boiled by a slow, mild fire. If it coagulates again, the 

 glass in which it is preser^'ed should only be put on 

 ashes, and, with the help of a little water, it will soon be- 

 come fluid again. 



♦' Gautieri gave to an old lady, hged sixty years, the 

 gluten in doses of six ounces daily, and cured her, on 



