a a 
8 he devoted himself to eo Eyal 20 and largely aided the 
general introduction of this important industry into France. It was how- 
ever in 1819 that he made his most important and beautiful invention, 
liquids. He discovered thereby the origin of what is called “teohnically 
each other although soun he same pitch and with like intensity 
In 1822 he published his pene Bs upon the effect produced by heat 
on bodies under great res. He deduced fi wn es pragioun 
product resembling coal. This experiment has been rea recently 
under better conditions and real coal has been thus obtaine 
(traction). pereags n 1826 he constructed the Aa nded apenas of 
Crouzol, nearly two hundred meters long, and without intermediate sup- 
rt. 
por 
Disinfection and Pah oe of wounds.—For several weeks the scientific 
and medical world has been greatly interested by the introduction of a 
cial 
¢ kind 
tinguished surgeon Velpeau, after experiments with this disinfectant on 
suppurating wounds in a eg state, has reported {ayer to the Acad- 
omy. of Sciences, We extract some passages from his re 
of a woman with a 
n the case vast. cancerous “eating way all 
ihe “left side of the chest, the odes of pour pus after two daily ap- 
plications disappeared. 
A young man was treated whose hand was scalded by a steam boiler 
and mortification had supervened, involving: cl the whole of one fin- 
ger. On Saturday bane this ee a as in a complete state of morti- 
is 
: 
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fication and gave , itw 
and evening of a ne i 5 the. po wder i in question ; the bad finger was 
dried Bee ae sens, vat the odor el and the mortification ceased, 
XXVIII, No. 84, NOV., 1359. 
