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PARTURIENT EEEECTS OF THE SULPHATE OF MORPHIA. 
Dr. Byrd, in the American Med.-Chir.Review for May, says* 
(i I do not regard morphia as possessing superior properties 
to ergot, but I believe it is generally certain in its effects; 
and 1 have several times administered it with success, in 
arousing the dormant contractions of the uterus, when the 
secale has failed.” 
IODINE AND BELLADONNA IN MAMMITIS. 
Dr. Weatherley has used an ointment made by mix¬ 
ing together, Iodine, gr. xv, Extract. Belladonnae, gr. xx, 
Cerat. 5ij, in several cases of inflammation of the breast, with 
excellent effect.— Ibid , and Medical Times and Gazette. 
THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
In a previous number we gave an account of this plant. In 
France its cultivation is still attended with success. It is stated 
to yield—1. An excellent sugar. 2. Farina obtained from 
its seeds, makes good bread and chocolate. 3. Alcohol and 
an agreeable tonic wine are prepared from the stem and leaves. 
4. Certain dyes, hitherto supposed to be peculiar to China, 
are also produced from these ; and 5, the residue makes ad¬ 
mirable paper. 
The plant is about to be introduced into Australia, where it 
is supposed that in the seasons of drought, to which the 
colony is so liable, it will be found valuable as food for cattle. 
ASPHYXIA. 
It results, according to M. B. Sequard, from his ex¬ 
periments on asphyxia, that w'arm-blooded animals — the 
adult as well as those just born—resist asphyxia in proportion 
to the lower degree of their temperature, provided always 
that the temperature do not fall below 18° to 19 ° centigrade ; 
that the law laid down by Legallois and Edwards is erroneous, 
the resistance to asphyxia being greater, under certain con- 
