122 Correspondence of J. Nicklés. 
M. de Luca is a refugee Neapolitan, and one of the directors of the 
Ateneo Italico. The application which he has here made of the vul- 
canised india rubber bag appears to be copied from the ‘* Cornemuse,” 
a picturesque musical instrument much used among the Neapolitan 
erdsmen. 
cases, such as usphyxia by chloroform, carbonic acid gas, and even 
strangulation. “When life appeared to be extinct, so that the beating of 
the pulse and movement of the chest were hardly sensible, they have 
injected oxygen into the lungs and almost immediately the effect was 
apparent and there was a restoration to life. In some comparative e& 
periments, made under like conditions, they have shown that the atmo- 
spheric air was almost always without effect, and ji can ils 
action be compared to that of oxygen which is all-powerful and instant 
medical journals. After cooling with the ether for four minutes, the 
Surgeon, perceiving that the part was insensible, plunged in his ie 
and made an incision near 5 centimeters in length; and the patient felt 
sented to the demy, on the part of M. Frederic Martens, engrave 
and photographer at Paris, a number of photographs on paper, TeP 
mon 
correct, but in fact right, the error being that of the observer, to whowt 
as has been often remarked, vertical objects, such as mountains af 
distant edifices, always appear steeper and more elevated or inte? 
