188 Fupiigation, 8fc. 



slightly coloured oil, which must be freed from sulphuric 

 acid by washing, it is acid aod astringent to the taste. It 

 reddens litmus paper. It burns readily giving out sulphur- 

 reous fumes. Its odour differs from that of sulphuret of 

 carbon, :md is decornposed by heat. Its compounds have 

 been termed Hydro-carho-sulphatss. 



Ann. of Phil, new series. 



Articles of Foreign Literature and Science, extracted and translated by 

 Professor Griscom. 



8. A work has been published in France, by M. Brard, 

 late director of the mines of Servoz, entitled Mineralogie 

 Appliquee Aux Arts. It is in 3 vols. 8vo, with plates, price 

 21 francs. 



The style and arrangement is rather severely crhicised in 

 the Rev. Ency. but the reviewer admits that it contains 

 much useful matter, facts and observations hitherto but lit- 

 tle attended to, and that the author has evinced extensive 

 knowledge in many branches of physical science and of the 

 useful arts. 



9. Fumigtttion.^—T\\Q Swedish public have been much 

 interested lately in a new medical discovery of considera- 

 ble importance. It had been known for some time that 

 Pehrs Anderson of Sudermania, who had attended one of 

 the late diets as a deputy from his class, was curing, in his 

 province, the most inveterate syphilitic diseases, and even 

 those that had been considered as incurable, by means of 

 fumigations. The college of health, desirous of examin- 

 ing for itself, this process and its results, sent for Anderson 

 to Stockholm, and engaged him, on the payment of his ex- 

 pences, to undertake the treatment of various individuals, 

 affected with those diseases in the hospital of that city. 

 Eight of them, on whom mercurial remedies and a strict 

 diet, had produced no effect, were completely healed in two, 

 three or five weeks according to the extent of the disease. 

 Six new patients are now under the operation of the new 

 remedy. M. De Weigel, president of the College, and 

 several other physicians of the city, who have observed this 

 curative process with the greatest attention, bestow upon it 

 a just tribute of praise, and have induced the Directors of 



