266 Correspondence of J. Nickleés. 
more rapidly than the old kind of paint, after the second day it ceases 
to emit any odor, and furthermore it presents a very fine grain and shines 
with vivid brightness. Since by reason of tite resiebal of nitre-banae 
commenced to use instead the min aril oil w ich Canada and Posie 
vania send to Europe in such great quantiti This new employment, 
if it becomes general, cannot fail to 1 ale oil of turpentine and the 
drying mi 
By mixing the powder of galvanoplastic copper with certain fatty oils, 
Oudry obtained very beautiful greens of vari 
gen Gas to counteract Gangrene.—In our last communication we 
referred to the satisfactory resulis obtained by the use of carbonic acid 
he treatment of obstinate ulcers. In the Hospital Hotel Dieu at 
Paris, experiments have — made which induce the belief pa it is Lac 
i re 
ion or asta 3 the orygen necessary to the integrity aa t 
li o a tissue.” The author of this proposition, —— oe de- 
his care at Hote Dieu ; ‘shes idea occurred to him to expose the 
h 
Laugier, the gangrene was arrested, and the parts menaced me AY to a 
healthy state. The eschar upon the toe disappeared little by little, @ 
pris formed and the disease was cure 
cond experiment was made in the same hospital upon 
paijest “aie 75 years of age. A rapid change took place in the sob 
If these facts are confirmed in other cases of spontaneous gangrene 
and a new ‘proof 
P eisehimeli of Prubereular Leprosy, or the Red Disease ; 
bout 30 years r. Guyon, yeti in a tropical pio was 
witness of the liveliest anxiety of a family in which the elder son, from 
ten to twelve years o , became affected with tubercular leprosy 
developed spontaneously. A son = a estate ape still remained to 
paren Dr. Guyon, ng been mine the had 
; ts. G g to exa 
patients, recognized upon their little | bodies podlieatioe of the d 
disease. These indications consisted in rose-red spots upon the 
