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Facts and Observations. 
IODINE IN SNAKE-BITE AND BITES OE RABID ANIMALS. 
Dr. Brainard, of Chicago, has for years used and pretty 
clearly demonstrated the value of iodine as an application to 
snake-bites. Dr. Massey commenced early in 1853 to treat 
wounds made by rabid animals with tincture of iodine. He 
applies it to the wound every five minutes for an hour, then 
an emollient poultice, and the iodine every hour for the next 
ten hours, then every four hours for the next twenty-four, 
and changes the poultice every twelve hours until the wound 
heals. He has employed this treatment with success in a 
number of cases. Some of the animals he has reason to 
believe were rabid, and others, perhaps, not so . — Medical 
Times and Gazette . 
A NEW METAL. 
Mr. Joseph Jones, of Bolton-le-Moors, states that he has 
discovered the perfect metal sulphurium, which is of the 
same class as arsenicum, silver, aluminium, etc. Oxide of 
sulphurium is the refuse of the manufacture of sulphuric 
acid from brimstone, and has no commercial value ; persons 
being paid for carting it away. In its refuse condition it has 
almost the specific gravity of iron, and the atoms are very- 
fine, malleable and ductile. — Miner’s Gazette . 
HOW THE BONES, &c., BECOME RED BY MADDER. 
Mr. Hunt says that it was a belief among the Romans 
that sheep which were fed on madder had red wool ; 
and the poets Martial and Virgil describe in their verses 
flocks which were thus coloured, and from whose wool 
coloured garments were made. It is a fact that madder has 
the property of colouring the solid parts, as the bones, of 
animals which have been fed for some time on the plant, 
but we are not aware that any modern experiments have been 
made upon the wool. Beckman states that the discovery 
of the fact that madder colours the bones of animals red. 
