2094 The Zoologist— April, 1870. 



about 4 A.M. the next morning, when I was awakened by an acute 

 burning pain in the roof of the mouth, which continued some couple 

 of hours, gradually subsiding, and leaving behind a soreness. I found 

 that the part was blistered — the tongue to the extent of an inch from 

 the tip quite raw, and the gums of the lower jaw also blistered. I now 

 feel these parts so very sore and tender that I am unable to partake 

 of my usual food. 



It is with some reluctance that I have related the effects of the 

 poison on myself, but in the cause of science and truth, and on a 

 subject which has attracted universal interest not only in the profes- 

 sion, but b}' the public generally, I feel myself bound to relate facts 

 as they occurred. I am happy to say that my patient is quite well; 

 he left the Hospital of his own accord on January 10, but attends 

 daily at ray house, as the hand is still swollen and the wound 

 unhealthy. 



I hope on a future occasion to detail a mode of treatment to be 

 pursued in all such cases. Of course there is nothing new in the 

 sucking of a poisoned wound ; this is well known to medical men 

 generally. I only claim the fact of having brought it practically into 

 successful play ; but the potash treatment is original and my own, 

 based on numerous actual experiments, carried out from time to time 

 at much expense, trouble, and risk. — John Shortl, M.D., in the 

 'Homeward Mair of February 19, 1870. 



Natural History Notes from Minas Geraes, dc. 



Blox worth, March 16, 1870. 



Dear Sib, — The following notes from the journal of Mr. Henry 

 Rogers, of Freshwater, now collecting birds and insects, &c., in 

 Brazil, may perhaps interest the readers of the ' Zoologist.' 



Very truly yours, 



O. P.-Cambridge. 

 E. Newman, Esq. 



Santa Fe, Minas Geraes, Brazil, 

 December, 1869, to January 18, 1870. 

 My dear Sir, — I send you a few rambling notes from my journal, 

 in hopes that some of them may prove interesting. We are getting 

 more butterflies and beetles here than where we were when last I 



