Foreign Laterature and: Sciences 383 2. 
amphitheatre-220 feet in length; temples ; barracks whose 
columns are»covered: with bumorous inscriptions and - the: - 
names of soldiers who occupied it; wells, cisterns; public 
seats’; beautiful altars in mosaic; fragments of statues 3 ear- — 
then tubes for carrying water through the streets; prisons :- 
and:fetters ; such are the principal remains of the: arts of»: 
ancient Italy... The houses of Pompeia are in general very > 
low, many of them are only ten feet high. The streets are~> 
about sixteen feet wide, and the foot walks three feet, con- 
siderably elevated. ‘The narrower streets are only sixteen 
feet wide with: side walks in ase alate dt 
34. Retwedy for Drunkenness. Me use of dilute Gant 
Ammonia as an antispasmodic has been long known. Dr. 
Girard, of Lyons, has applied it to the cure of fits of intoxi->- 
cation, which he considers as a: nervous affection. Seven 
or eight drops of this alkali in half a glass of water, is enough 
to rouse a’ person from this morbid:condition. It operates 
not-by a decomposition of the wine or alcohol, but by modi- 
fying the sensibility of the mucous membrane of the stom-_ 
ach, and acting upon the innumerable nerves which are dis- 
tributed: over it, and transmit to the brain the i suet they 
have received. 
35: Rbiibahaloabes Ina report made to thie Faculty of 
Medicine of Paris; on the virtues of scutellaria laterifolia, — 
M. Merat observes that the New-York physician who eulo- 
gises this plant so highly, and who speaks of more than a 
thousand cures it has effected, does not distinguish in any 
case hydrophobia from madness, and seems to be ignorant : 
that the first is only a symptom of the second, and may ex- 
ist in other maladies. Hydrophobia: is only a nervous mal>: - 
ady, susceptible sometimes of cure, whilst confirmed mad= - 
ness is always incurable... Dr. Merat fears that the scutella- 
ria laterifolva has had no more success against madness than 
anasellis so much boasted of formerly, and alisma plantago 
recently presented as.a true remedy, and which:in reality is : 
like the others, destitute of properties in this frightfulomala=: 
dy. To form a safe conclusion, we must wait until the: 
American physician shall have pronounced Se on oo : 
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