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ataxic in the highest degree, as if they had been inoculated 

 with gangrene," Dr. Estribaud, finding fumigations with 

 oximuriatic acid of little effect, in places so crowded with 

 the sick, except as a preservative, administered the acid 

 internally with the greatest success. He mixed six or eight 

 drachms of the acid with a quart of a mucilaginous decoc- 

 tion ; but it is not said in what dose he administered the 

 medicine. He asserts, that its efficacy might be compared 

 with that of bark in intermittents. 

 awSt© prevent We are further told, that the acid has been administered 

 tocophobia, internally, in the hospital at Bordeaux, to several persons 

 bitten by a mad wolf: and that the hydrophobia was pre- 

 vented by it. 



Securing com M r « Sonnini informs us, on the authority of a German 

 foom the wee- Journal, the title of which he does not give, that if a granary 

 be swept clean from every grain of corn, so as to leave no, 

 food for weevils, and hay be then kept in it for six months, 

 corn may afterward be placed in it safely, without any dan- 

 ger from these destructive injects. 



Kennedy 

 against leaf 



Mr. Braun, of Vienna, gives the following as a cheap and 

 easy mode of freeing plants from leaf-lice. Mix an ounce 

 of flowers of sulphur with a bushel of sawdust, scatter this 

 over- the plants infested with these insects, and they will 

 soon be freed from them. If they should appear again, 

 the process may be repeated. 



Medical and Chemical Lectures. 



\f*#"caT an* ^ n Monday, the 1st of June, as usual, at No. 9, George 



tfoemicaUec- Street, Hanover Square, the courses of Medical Lectures 



*»?#• w j|j recommence at eight o'clock, and the Chemical at a 



quarter after nine. By George Pearson, M. D.. F. R. S„ 



sen. Physician of St. George's Hospital, of the College of 



Physicians, &c. 



A register is kept of the case* of Dr. Pearson's patients 

 ia St. George's Hospital, and a clinical lecture is given 

 on them every Saturday morning, at nine o'clock. 



