384 Foreign Literature and Science. 



that Iodine, besides its being endowed with the property of 

 increasing vascular action, restoring sanguification and re- 

 estabhshing the ordinary sanguineous excretions, particu- 

 larly from the uterine vascular system, on which it would 

 seem to exercise a direct action, excites .the activity of the 

 gastric functions, so that under its use the appetite is renew- 

 ed and active, the work of digestion goes on with celerity 

 and without inconvenience even in delicate females, and 

 those with weak stomachs. — Lon. Med. and Phys. Jour. 



Articles of Foreign Literature and Science, extracted and translated by 

 Professor Griscom. 



11, Preservation of Anatomical P reparations. -T)x. Macart- 

 ney of the University of Dublin employs for his anatomical 

 preparations a solution of alum and nitre, which he finds, has 

 the propert) of preserving natural appearances much better 

 than spirits of wine, or any other fluid hitherto employed. 

 The proportion of the two salts, and the strength of the so- 

 lution must vary according to circumstances ; and in order 

 wholly to impregnate the preparations the solution should be 

 renewed from time to time. This solution is so highly an- 

 tiseptic, that it destroys entirely, in a few days the fetor of 

 the most putrid animal substances. 



12. A Chain Bridge is in a state of forwardness, over the 

 Menai an arm of the Irish Sea which separates Anglesea 

 from N. Wales. It will have the unprecedented length of 

 560 feet, between the two supports,one on each shore ; and 

 its height above the water will be 126 feet, so that vessels 

 may pass beneath it under full sail. The abutments are of 

 masonry, surmounted by wood pyramids 50 feet high, over 

 which the chains pass. The bridge is 28 feet wide contain- 

 ing a foot path of four feet wide in the middle. It will cost 

 £70,000 sterling. 



13. Vegetable Analysis. — Dobereiner describes in his 

 Phytochimie pneumatique a little apparatus very convenient 

 for obtaining vegetable extract, through the medium of wa- 

 ter, alcohol, ether, &c. from 10 to 200 grains. It consists 

 of a glass tube A of 4, 6 or 9 lines in diameters, and from 4 



