Miscellanies. 167 



We recommended aqua ammonise to be placed on the upper lip 

 and in the nostrils, for the purpose of neutralizing the chlorine by 

 the production of muriate of ammonia. — Ed. 



January 14, 1830. 



7. Professor Hitchcock'' s lectures on diet, regimen and employ- 

 ment. — These able and interesting lectures were delivered last year 

 to the students in Amherst College, and are worthy of the attention 

 of all students, and indeed of all persons. We trust that the Jour- 

 nal of Health, the Journal of Humanity, and the Lectures of Prof. 

 Hitchcock, seconded by other valuable publications, are doing and will 

 continue to do much for the promotion both of the physical and moral 

 health of the community. 



Professor Hitchcock has justly urged the necessity of temperance 

 and selection in the use of food as well as of drink, and although un- 

 der the latter head, we may differ from him in some details, and may 

 think some of his opinions carried to an extreme, we do think his 

 main argument sound and irresistible, and we believe that no one 

 will rise from a perusal of his book (so well sustained by facts and 

 authorities as well as by reasoning,) without a disposition to he tem- 

 perate in all things. 



In Vol. XVI, p. 327 of this Journal, mention is made of a ship 

 which sailed from New York for China without any spirit on board, 

 and this without the knowledge of her crew, who were however pro- 

 vided with abundant comforts of every other kind. The captain of 

 the ship wrote from Whampoa, China, to his employers under the 

 date of October 7, 1829. "Your experiment of sending us to sea 

 without ardent spirits has thus far proved most satisfactory ; I have 

 not heard a murmur on the subject, and my crew have been on shore 

 and returned sober, a case unparalelled in the annals of Whampoa." 

 The ship has since returned to New York and brought the same 

 crew of sober, contented, efficient men, all ready to enlist again upon 

 the same terms, and the proprietors of the vessel, (principal navi- 

 gation merchants of New York) " are so well convinced that liquor 

 is worse than useless on board of their vessels, that in no one has 

 any been sent during the past year." — Ed. 



8. On frogs and toads in stone and solid earth, by David 

 Thomas, Esq. — The permanent existence of living animals in situa- 

 tions where atmospheric changes appear to be impossible, being still 

 regarded by many persons as a matter of dubious authority, the fol- 



