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Another: The first step should be the application of a tight lig- 

 ature above the Avound ; 2dly, the speedy and complete excision 

 of the wounded part ; and 3dly, the long-continued affusion of an 

 alkaline solution, as pearlasli in water, over the excised parts. 

 The wound .should afterward be dressed with Spanish flies, in 

 order tJiat a discharge may be kept up for a considerable length 

 of time. Where it is impossible to cut out the flesh around the 

 wound, make a solution of pure potash, or apply, with a pencil, 

 lunar caustic (nitrate of silver). Nitric acid is applied, by sorne, 

 as the safest means of preventing the evil consequences arising 

 from the bite of rabid animals, but it is not always attended 

 with success, even when taken in its earliest stages. 



APPENDIX. 



THE BEE. 



Peovidence, who delights in exhibiting beneficence as well 

 as beauty all over creation, has wisely formed the bee as an 

 humble, but active and untiring, agent in gathering up for the 

 most important purposes, and converting to the most valuable 

 uses, the scrtips and fragments of nature which would other- 

 wise be scattered by the " viewless winds," and spread through 

 the "ambient air." He has adorned the song of the poet, 

 pointed the tale of the moralist, and furnished food to the hun- 

 gry in the desert. Virgil calls the bee a ray of divinity ; Plu- 

 tarch pronounces her a magazine of virtues ; Quintian asserts 

 that she is the greatest of geometricians ; and Watts has pointed 

 to her industry as an example to interest, improve, and delight 

 the. youthful mind. Philosophy has stooped to examine her 

 habits, and to watch over her haunts ; she has presented the 

 models of science, and called forth the attention of scientific 

 men ; b)'- her the husbandman, when sitting in his cottage gar- 

 den, is soothed in his evening reflections on his day of toil; 

 and in whatever light she may be viewed, there is none who 

 can declare that he has no interest in her ways. 



CONSXRUCTION OF A BEE-HIVE. 



It is important that a bee-hive should be made of well-sea- 

 soned boards, free from shakes and cracks ; it should be planed 

 very smooth, both inside and out ; joined as near as possible, to 

 make it air-tight ; and painted white on the outside. Glass 

 hives are being introduced into various parts of the country, 

 and it is probable that they will soon come into very general 



