204 Miscellanies. 



acquire great extension, at no distant period. One of the principal 

 manufacturers, M. Crespelle Delisse, of Arras, is of opinion that in 

 ten years, France will gather from its own soil, the sugar necessary 

 for its consumption and which is estimated at sixty millions of kilo- 

 grammes. — Bib. Univ. Avril, 1830. 



8. Hydrophobia. — Three cases of the cure of this formidable 

 disease, by friction with mercurial ointment, one of them at forty 

 days after the bite, when slight symptoms of the disease, attended 

 with spasms, had become manifested, are described in the Bib. Univ^ 

 Mars, 1830. 



9. Silicine. — From the trials which have been made of this new 

 febrifuge, at La Charite, by M. Miguel, and at I'Hotel-Dieu, by 

 MM. Hasson and Bally, as well as by other physicians, it can no 

 longer be doubted that M. Leroux has discovered, in the bark of the 

 willow, a crystallizable principle, which possesses incontestably the 

 properties of a febrifuge, in a degree which approaches very nearly 

 to that of the sulphate of kinine, and this discovery is doubtless one 

 of the most important that has for some years past been made in 

 therapeutics. — Rev. Encyc. Mai, 1830. 



P. S. Bedford Mineral Springs. — A pamphlet, by Dr. William 

 Church, containing an analysis of some of these springs, (described 

 by Dr. H. H. Hayden, page 97 of die present number,) was receiv- 

 ed as the last proof was in the press. In a quart of the water of 

 Anderson's or the principal spring. Dr. Church found 18j cubic 

 inches of carbonic acid gas. 



Sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salts, - - - 20. grs. 

 Sulphate of lime, ------ 3.75 



Muriate of soda, 2.50 



Muriate of lime, ------- .75 



Carbonate of iron, ------ 1.25 



Carbonate of lime, - - - - - 2. 



Loss, -------- .75 



31.00 

 Fletcher's, or the Upper Spring, gave rather more iron and com- 

 mon salt, less magnesia, and about the same proportion of the other 

 substances. 



