386 Chioruret of Lime. 
_delier: there is not a spot in the hall where one cannot see 
to read with the greatest facility.—Jbid. 
14. Guent. There is about to be established in this town 
a School of Arts and Trades, in which workmen of all profes- 
sions, and apprentices will be admitted. The city of Ghent 
designs, it would appear, to prepare the building at its own 
expense. The lectures will be given gratuitously.—Jbid. 
18. Paris. According to a statement, made by authority, 
there were $71 suicides in this city during the year 1824; 
namely, 239 men and 132 women. ‘This is 19 less than in 
the preceding year; but the number of these melancholy 
events is a heavy charge against our civilization, of which we 
are so proud, and which still preserves so many traces of bar- 
barity. Gambling-houses, lotteries, brothels, openly author- 
ized, are so many perfidious snares laid for cupidity, misery, 
weakness, and all the corrupt passions: and these schools of 
immorality pay a tribute to enjoy a shameful privilege, and 
obtain a legal existence in the bosom of a social order which 
they dishonour.—Ibid. 
16. Sulphate of Quinine.-—The high price of this valuable me- 
dicine, has tempted the cupidity of counterfeiters, and what is 
more remarkable, one of them had the audacity to request 
M. Pelletier, of whom he purchased this article, to prepare 
for him some sulphate of lime,(which, as is well known, crystal- 
lizes in silky fibres,) in order to mix it with sulphate of quinine. 
This then is one method of adulteration. Others have sub- 
stituted carbonate of magnesia. These frauds are easily dis- 
covered ; for it is sufficient to treat the sulphate of quinine 
with aleohol which dissolves it entirely, whilst the two other 
salts remain insoluble, and washed with cold water are insi- 
pid.— Bul. de Sciences Aotst, 1825. 
17. Chloruret of Lime.—M. Virey communieated to the Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Paris on the 14th of May, a statemént of 
the diseases which afilicted the army of Spain in 1812, by Dr. 
Estienne, by which it appears that chloruret of lime, spread 
among the beds of those affected with typhus, produced ir 
the most infected hospitals very advantageous effects. M. 
Lisfranc stated that he had used the same substance success 
fully for a considerable time in the treatment of atonic ulcers : 
