188 Miscellanies. 



to contract into one general focus the energies of each nation, and 

 comparing the state of their society both moral and political, their 

 commerce, internal and external, and their state of Literature and 

 the Fine Arts, with that of another Empire, demands for it the title 

 of " Universal," and eminently merits the zealous support of every 

 enlightened individual, whose nobility of mind prompts him to offer 

 his mite to the general stock of knowledge. 



Should this communication through your Journal be the means of 

 having formed in your principal cities, establishments of a statistical 

 nature, be assured that each Society will receive every aid and as- 

 sistance from the " Universal Statistical Society of France," which 

 will ever be anxious to advance their researches, and to act with 

 them reciprocally. I have the honor to remain. 



Your very obedient serv't, 



Charles Sanderson, 

 Mem. of the U. S. S. of France, 

 the Imp. Agri. Sac. of Vienna, &fc. fyc. 

 New York, Dec. la, 1835. 



11. Tobacco, a remedy for Arsenic ; communicated to the Ed- 

 itor by Rev. Ralph Ejierson. — About the year 1820, Miss So- 

 phia Eastman of Holies, N. H. (now connected with the orphan 

 asylum in Troy, N. Y.) fell into the mistake, so often committed, 

 of eating a portion of arsenic which had been prepared for the de- 

 struction of rats. Painful symptoms soon led to inquiry ; and her 

 mistake was discovered. An elderly lady who was present, advised 

 that she should be made to vomit as speedily as possible, and as she 

 had always felt a perfect loathing for tobacco in every shape, it was 

 supposed that this would at once effect the purpose. A pipe was 

 used, but without producing any nausea. She next chewed a large 

 portion of strong tobacco, and swallowed the juice, and that without 

 . even a sensation of disgust. A strong decoction was then made 

 with hot water, of which she drank perhaps half a pint. Still there 

 was neither nausea or dizziness, nor did it operate at all either as an 

 emetic or a cathartic. The painful sensations at her stomach, how- 

 ever, subsided, and she began to feel well. On the arrival of phy- 

 sicians, an emetic of blue vitriol was administered, which operated 

 moderately once. One or two days after, there was a discharge of 

 a dark green color, approaching to black. No ill consequences fol- 

 lowed. 



