Vol. IX.— No. ;i-2. 



AND HOIITICULTUIIAL JOURNAL. 



251 



ANATO.MY. 



xtract-i from Davis's Kepoit on Lcsaliziiis tlie Snuly 

 ^naiDiny. 



Not only is this knowledge of anatomy necessary 

 Jjc siirgoon, but it is of so fleeting a nnture as to 

 uiro coiislant practice to keep it IVesli and 

 ht. The oldest, most practised and adroitest 

 gcon will never essay an ordinary operation on a 

 ng subject, hetbrc ho 'first lias traced out his track, 

 h tlio certainty, and nil the soloiiin sanction of 

 Icatli, on the dead subject. It is dissection, 

 leated and reiterated dissection alone, t!iat can 

 elihim, where ho may cut the liviiis; body with 

 edoni and despatch : where lie may venture, only 

 h great circumspection and delicacy; and where 

 must not on any consideration attempt Whatman's 

 ani/.alion would render fatal.' 

 In (he disease of tlie lii-er, pain is generally felt 

 he top of the risriit shoulder. The right phrenic 

 ve sfMuls a branch to the liver. Ths third cer- 

 il nerve from which the phrenic arises, sends 

 nernus branches "to the neighborliood of the 

 uldcr : thus is established a nervous communica- 

 between the shoulder and tlie liver. This is a 

 which nothing but anatomy could teach, and 

 rdsthe explanation of a symptom, which nothing 

 anatomy could give. The knowledge of it 

 jld infallibly correct a mistake, into which a per- 

 , who is ignorant of it, would be sure to fall: in 

 persons ignorant of it do constantly commit the 

 ,-r. 



Disease of the liver has been known to beerro- 

 iislv treated as rheumatism in the shoulder, and 

 error may liave been fatal to the patient, by 

 ing to a fatal and insidious disease an opportunity 

 making root in the system. Disease of the liver 

 ot uilfrequently taken for disease of the lungs, 

 too, persons treated for disease of the liver, have 

 n found to have had no disease of the liver, but 

 sease of the brain. 



Persons are often attacked with convulsions, 

 2cially children : — convulsions are spasms ; — 

 sms of course are to be treated by anti-spasnio- 

 t. But these spasms are only symptoms, denot- 

 an important disease of the brain, where only 

 remedy is to be applied; and the ignorant prac- 

 mer who prescribes and administers anti-spasmo- 

 i, not only loses the time in which the remedies 

 ave lif^ can be successfully employed, butactii- 

 exacorbates the disease and accelerates its fatal 

 uination. In the hip conipliint, so terrible and 

 iful a disease, the first pain is felt in the 

 e, not in the hip. Of the numerous painful 

 •ctions of the abdominal region, the lungs, the 

 rt, the head and the extremities, some are trace- 

 ! to a nervous origin and are known as Neural- 

 Diseases. Dissection has enabled the anatomist 

 oUow the nerves from these portions of the hu- 

 frame into and through the spinal marrow, and 

 er large but remote masses of neivous matter: 

 nd this has suggested to the physician the truly 

 :Osopliical remedy for the painful affections of 

 se regions, produced by disordered nerves; viz. 

 pply remedies to the back, — the less obvious but 

 ; seal of the disease,— instead of to the immedi- 

 locality of the pain. Remedies thus applied 

 e had the happiest effects, and afford new and 

 king illustrations of the necessity of anatomy to 

 successful practice of medicine. 

 Err.ir in all these cases is inevitable without a 

 iwloiige of anatomy ; and experience so far from 

 iing to its detection, would rather serve to con- 

 1 it Ignorance of the mode of properly apply- 

 his experience deprives the unskilled in anatomy 

 the ability of piofitiug by it.' 

 Richerand has recorded of Ferrand, chief surgeon 

 Hold Dieu, thatuhe killed a patient by mistaking 

 aneurism in the arm pit for an abscess. De 

 en mentions a person who died in consequence 

 the opening, against the advice of Boerhaave, of a 

 lilar tumor near the knee. Vesalius pronounced 

 jmor on the back to be an aneurism, but an ignor- 

 practitioner opened it and the patient bled to 



death. Such mistakes are easy, except to those 

 tliorou<;lily skilled in anatomy, which in all such cases 

 is therefore necessary to prevent the most deadly 

 mistakes.' 



' Anatomy hns taught that the flow of blood can 

 be stopped by external pressure, applied to the 

 wounded vessel, or if this be not feasible, by boldly 

 cutting down to it and applying a ligature. Pare, 

 in a moment of enthusiasm, supposed he had been 

 led to this discovery by the immediate influence of 

 the Deity. 



' It has enabled the surgeon to attempt operations, 

 which without it would have been impossible and 

 desperate ; but more, it has taught him that where 

 a hemorrhage is apparently so violent as to threaten 



of Banistiihlc, has been engaged for twenty years 

 in the cultivation of cranberries, that his grounds 

 have averaged for the last ten years, seventy bush- 

 els pel- acre, and that some seasons he has had 100 

 bushels. 'Mr P. A. Hayden, of Lincoln, has gath- 

 ered from his farm, this season, 400 bu.shcls of cran- 

 berries, which he sold in this city (Boston) for 

 $G00.' Now, where is the propriety of farmers 

 emigrating to Michigan, or to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, when they can bo compensated for their 

 labor in this manner, in the immediate vicinity of 

 our large cities, where the comforts of life and the 

 blessings of civilization are so easily obtained. 



instant death, the inere pressure of a finder directed Now let us look a little further into Ihis business, 

 by unerring science may check the living torrent, i If we go to raising cranberries, where shall we find 



till there be time to tie the vessel up and give 

 nature time and opportunity to repair the loss that 

 has been sustained. 



' But without that perfect knowledge of the whole 

 human frame, of every vein and artery, muscle, nerve 

 and bone,— ;-that anatomy only can give — the sur- 

 geon with the aid of the best apparatus, with the 

 most perfect self possession, would find his efforts 

 defeated, and valuable lives would be lost to society.' 



' In the present practice in England, where ampu- 

 tation is performed at the proper time and in a prop- 

 er manner, it is computed, that ninetyfive persons 

 out of one hundred recover from it. Among the 

 ancients, the operation killed ninetyfive out of one 

 hundred. Among the moderns it cures ninetyfive 

 out of one hundred ; such are the results of dissec- 

 tion and the study of anatomy.' 



AGRICULTURE. 



The Charlotte county, New Brunswick, Agricul- 

 tural and Emigrant Society held its annual meeting 

 some days since. Dr Fryre in the chair. The 

 eleventh annual report states, that general improve- 

 ment in amount of production, and mode of culti- 

 vation has taken place. We copy the commenc- 

 ing and concluding paragraphs of the report, as 

 they are interesting generally, and most of the 

 sentiments expressed in them apply to Nova Scotia 

 as well as New Brunswick: 



' In the usual perception of events perhaps no 

 undertaking can he more philanthropic and truly 

 patriotic than that of fostering the productions of 

 the soil, in a new country, where science had only 

 begun to lighten the gloom of its forests, and where 

 the laborious avocations of man are mainly circum- 

 scribed w'ithin a few removes of primeval rudeness. 

 When thus engaged we are preparing the surest 

 foundation by which to provide subsistence for our- 

 selves and fellow creatures, and at the same time 

 will secure the future welfare, prosperity and inde- 

 pendence of our country. And while the silent 

 hand of time in its advancing course reminds us to 

 be up and doing, the retrospect of past labors 

 becomes doubly dear from the consciousness that 



a market? This is a very natural question, but is 

 easily answered ; go where Mr Ilayden went,' if you 

 are not suited with the New .York market. Cran- 

 berries, unlike most other kinds of small fruits, 

 are capable of being transported to Europe, with- 

 out suffering by the voyage, and we have seen 

 American cranberries selling in London at eight 

 dollars per bushel, as fresh as when first gathered 

 from the marshes. Now let us compare this liiud 

 of farming, with raising wheat in the northern part 

 of Ohio and Michigan, where we believe the price 

 the last season has been about forty cents per bushel 

 and the produce twentyfive bushels per acre. We 

 will suppose the cultivation of one acre of land in 

 either crop to be the same, but this is for the sake 

 of brevity, and is in favor of the wheat: we will 

 allow the wheat to be threshed for every tenth 

 bushel, and that the cranberries cost twenty cents 

 per bushel, for harvesting. 



The produce of one acre of wheat, 25 bushels 

 at 40 cents, is $10 



Cultivating same $5, threshing same $1, 6 



, Net profit. 

 The produce of one acre of cranberries, 



bushels, at $1 50, is 

 Cultivating same $6, packing same $14, 



$105 

 20 



Net profit, 85 



Thus it would appear that the net profit of one 

 acre of cranberries in New England, would be 

 equal to twentyone acres and a quarter of wheat in 

 the northern part of Ohio and Michigan : now this 

 is all well ; there are some people who seem to 

 require care to make them happy, and thus by emi- 

 gration, they can increase their cares twenty fold, 

 on the same amount of business. — Genesee Farmer. 



Liability of Stage Proprietors. — A verdict 

 of fifteen hundred dollars was obtained, in the S. J. C 

 on Monday in an action for damages brought against 

 the proprietors of the Boston and Providence Citizens 

 , .. . . , , , , , , line of stages by an individual whose leg was so- 



under divine favor they have not been altogether j ^^^.^^y ^^,^^^^,.^(1 ^^^ who was other wise injured by 

 in vain. "* The President and Directors appeal the overturnino- of the Carriage in which he was a 



to the patriotism of the Members, to persevere in 

 the most laudable temporal pursuit in which man 

 can embark — the support of his kind and coun- 

 try, — and they confidently trust, that if the meed of 

 praise, that most powerful incentive to perseverance, 

 be due to honest exertions, it will not be withheld 

 from those devoted to Agriculture.' — Halifax Recor- 

 der. 



CRANBERRIES. 



A new field is open for speculation to those who 

 have low lands, and it is hoped that some of our Mon- 

 roe farmers will be wise enough to profit by it. The 

 New England Farmer states that Capt. Henry Hall, 



passenger on the Boston Neck. 



^VooL. — Something new.— For a short time past, 

 agents for unknown persons have been employed 

 in some towns in this vicinity, in buying up all 

 the wool on the backs of the sheep, to be delivered 

 after shearing. They advance the cash for it, at 

 from 48 to 55 cents per pound. One town, it is 

 thought, has received, and will receive, in the 

 course of the season about $25,000 for wool. — 

 Jf'indsor, Vt. Chron. 



Up to 6th inst. there had been good sleighing, in 

 Ohio, 4 weeks, a case not known for over 32 years. 



