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MISCELLANEA. 
Jenner and Napoleon. 
During the savage war that raged between France and Eng- 
land, when Napoleon had all Europe, with the single exception 
of Great Britain, at his feet, and many of our countrymen were 
languishing in French prisons, the only avenue to the conqueror’s 
heart for some little indulgence to these unfortunates was through 
Edward Jenner and the Empress Josephine. Jenner wrote the 
petition, the kind-hearted Josephine presented it, and upon several 
occasions with* success. 
At length, Napoleon interdicted any new applications of the 
kind. “ Thou knowest, my sweet friend,” he said, “ I can refuse 
thee nothing which thou askest in the name of that man. My 
sense of duty to the state informs me that I do wrong in yielding 
to thee ; so let me be tempted no more.” 
Wherefore has not civilized man from the four corners of the 
globe contrived to rear a monument in every land and in every 
town to the name and memory of Edward Jenner ? Our DE- 
STROYERS have columns and statues in our public places : shall our 
preservers lack memorials of our grateful remembrance 1 The 
French have lately raised a monument to Moliere, — the Brusselers 
have dedicated a statue to Vesalius; — why should we not follow 
with one to Jenner? 
A Clinical Account of the Spleen. 
By M. H. Bouley. 
A FEMALE ass, of a black colour, aged eight years, and of good 
constitution, was admitted at the hospital of Alfort on the 25th of 
July, 1843. 
Two days before, it had been attacked by a cow, from whose 
horns it had received several severe blows; first., behind the 
symphysis of the chin was a contused wound, superficial, and not 
extensive ; second, at the left side of the abdomen, and behind the 
cartilaginous circle of the sides, was an oblique wound of the skin, 
behind and above and below, and torn and lacerated throughout 
the whole thickness of the costo-abdominal muscle. The third 
wound was large and deep before the plate veins. 
On the next day there was a little enlargement, and much sen- 
sibility on pressure. The following symptoms were appearing : 
loss of strength and of spirit — loss of appetite — heat of the skin — 
acceleration of pulse and respiration — the flank relatively calm — - 
and the conjunctiva of a red tint. 
