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15. Hampure. Surgery.—A physician of this town, has 
just invented a new surgical instrument, by which a leg may be 
cut off in one second, and which benumbs the pain of the pa- 
tient by a pressure simultaneous with the amputation. —/dem.. 
16. Geneva. Mare-4duguste Pictet.--Our republic and 
the physica! and natural sciences have just sustained. an im- 
inense loss in the person of Professor Picter, who died on 
the night of April19—20. Four months has scarcely elapsed 
since death deprived us of his younger brother, the Coun- 
sellor of State, C. Pictet de Rochemont, one of our 
most distinguished magistrates ; and again the tomb is open. 
to deprive us, after an illness of three wecks, of a man whose 
vast knowledge, and the generous and useful employment 
which he made of it, rendered him dear to all his fellow-cit- 
izens. 
The loss of this distinguished savant, so impressively felt 
in Switzerland, will be equally so in those countries in which 
he supported a scientific correspondence, and especially in 
