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the third day, of a violent tertian fever. The gluten 

 from calves- feet produces the same effect as other gluten, 

 at the same time that is more palatable, and sits easier 

 on the stomach. It may also be given in greater quan- 

 tities than common glue, which often occasions nausea. 

 In Russia, the country-people commonly cure such fe- 

 vers with a thick soup, prepared from calves-feet. 



" Galvanism still shows its effects in curing deafness, 

 paralytical and similar cases, but not when employed in 

 Sprenger's way ; only by the soft influence of a few lay- 

 ers, and by long and patient continuation. Aldini's ex- 

 periments (in the philosophical way) have been trans-" 

 lated by Martens. 



" Pfaff, at Kiel, has published the third edition of 

 Brown's System^ with critical dissertations upon it. 



" Harles, at Erlang, has written on the danger of 

 spreading the yellow-fever in Europe. Its effects at 

 Malaga are terrible this year. The town is greatly de- 

 serted, and three thousand persons have fallen a sacrifice 

 to the disease, which even penetrated into the ships in 

 the harbour." 



51. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania 

 have established a Professorship of Surgery, to 

 which, in the month of June last, they appointed Philip 

 Syng Physick, M. D., of Philadelphia. 



