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HYDROPHOBIA IN CONSTANTINOPLE. 
could not be appropriated by the wants of the system, and 
therefore it acted as a predisposing cause; the shearing 
becoming the excitant cause of the malady. The person when 
shearing the sheep noticed that if the wool was cut very close, 
the skin became discoloured, and the animals that were 
slightly cut began to swell at the part. 
There has been another disease very prevalent among 
sheep^ the lungs being the organs affected, but in the above 
cases the lungs were perfectly free from disease. 
Facts and Observations, 
THE DIGESTIVE POWERS OF THE PANCREATIC JUICE. 
Dr. Corvisart, who has paid so much attention to this 
subject, is prosecuting his inquiries with undiminished ardour. 
At the meeting of the Academy of Medicine of Paris, held on 
the 20th inst.. Dr. Corvisart read a paper wherein are related 
several new experiments, which entirely confirm the views he 
has set forth respecting the digestive powers of the pancreatic 
juice. The pancreas may therefore be looked upon as an 
organ having, like the liver, a direct action on intestinal 
digestion. 
THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD 
FORESTALLED. 
The Gazette Hebdomadaire of the 23d instant quotes some 
Italian verses extracted from a work of one Cecco d’Ascoli, who 
was born in 1257, and whose poem entitled “ Acerbo” was 
printed only in 1476, which verses might be so construed as to 
contain a clear statement of the circulation of the blood as dis¬ 
covered by Harvey. Cecco was burned as a heretic in 1347. 
HYDROPHOBIA IN CONSTANTINOPLE. 
The Medical Society of the Turkish capital has appointed 
a committee to investigate the cause of spontaneous hydro¬ 
phobia as observed in dogs. These animals are allowed to 
run about in an almost wild state at Constantinople, and, as 
their number is great, the importance of prophylactic means 
