Case of Cancer. 181 



plete, that there is scarcely a vestige of the disease 

 visible. 



From the use of the Arsenicum album, the head be- 

 came repeatedly affected with pain ; the face and neck 

 considerably swelled ; but these symptoms gave way to 

 purgatives. 



Pittsburgh, May 25th, 1807. 



XIII. Additional Facts and Observations, relative to the 

 American Locust. By the Editor. 



THE Locust of which Dr. Jones has given us an 

 account, and which he seems to think has not been no- 

 ticed or described by naturalists, is unquestionably a 

 species of Cicada, or Tettigonia, and I presume the Ci- 

 cada septendecim of Linnaeus : the Tettigonia septen- 

 decim of Fabricius. Of this curious insect, the reader 

 will find some interesting notices in the first part of the 

 first volume of this Journal*. 



It is not necessary to take up any time in showing, 

 that the American locust is very different from that 

 which, for some thousands of years, has excited so 

 much attention in the countries of the East : which is so 

 eloquently described in the Ancient Scriptures ; which 

 occasionally visits, in great swarms, the countries of 

 Europe, and which there are some reasons to believe, is 



' Sec numbers xv, 3 

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