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plantation is being formed at Pycarrali, of 250 acres. In addition to this, 
private individuals are anxious to grow the cinchona, and have already 
bespoken 22,000 plants. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
At the Pathological Society of London, last October, Mr. Canton 
showed a horn which he had removed from the upper eyelid of an old 
woman; it commenced as a wart four years ago, and had attained a con- 
siderable size. 
The total number of in-patients admitted into the wards of all the 
London hospitals together, during 1061, amounted to 33,506, — a number 
surpassing the entire population of many a provincial town, and exceeding 
that of one English county. The whole number of in-patients in all the 
London hospitals on the night of the last census was 5,625. 
M. Reviel has instituted a series of experiments at the Ilopital 
Lariboisiere, Paris, and has shown the existence of a large amount of 
organic matter floating in the atmosphere. The dust of a ward was col- 
lected and found to contain 36 per cent, of organic matter, chiefly in the 
form of epithelial cells. In the air of rooms containing the sufferers from 
contagious inflammation of the eyeball, small corpuscles were detected 
analogous to those of the virus thrown off from an inflamed eye. It is 
probable that infection, therefore, is mechanically conveyed from eye to 
eye by means of the air. 
In the course of one week, Dr. Letheby detected in the City of London 
no less than 4,525 lb. of meat and seventy-three head of game exposed for 
sale, but totally unfit for human food. This amount was made up of 
sixteen sheep, ten pigs, thirty-two quarters of beef, and about fifty joints 
of meat beside. 
Dr. Ogilvie, of the Native General Hospital, Alexandria, lately removed 
from a Turk, a native of Adalia, in Asia Minor, a large tumour of the 
abdomen, the result of Arabian Elephantiasis. The weight of the tumour 
was forty-three pounds : the man made an excellent recovery. 
Mr. Glaisher, in his recent scientific balloon ascent, found that as a rule 
the number of beats of the pulse was increased the higher he rose. At the 
height of 29,000 feet above the earth he became insensible ; and it is in- 
teresting to note the order in which he lost the use of his powers. In the 
first place, he felt an inability to move his limbs ; then to keep his head 
erect ; then his body fell to the floor of the balloon-car. Suddenly an 
intense darkness came over his sight ; still he could hear ; his hearing then 
went, and lastly, his self-consciousness : he felt as if going to sleep. 
Through the presence of mind of Mr. Coxwell, his companion, who was, 
however, becoming temporarily paralyzed himself, and who had to open 
the escape valve for the gas with his teeth (his hands failing him), both 
valuable lives were saved. During the ascent there was no evidence of 
either intense cold, or of embarrassment in breathing. 
The loss of infant life in Sheffield (that is, in children from birth to five 
years of age) is one-half of the whole number of deaths. 
