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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
beasts and sheep entered at the Metropolitan Cattle Market 
on the great market day for the years 1862, '63, '64, '65, 
'66, '67, '68, '69, ’70, and '71, distinguishing the proportionate 
number of foreign animals in the total of each year, has been 
officially communicated to us. 
BEASTS. 
SHEEP. 
Market daj. 
Total. 
Foreign. 
Total. 
Foreign. 
1862 
Dec. 15th 
8,415 
388 
20,440 
3,530 
1863 
„ 14th 
10,123 
1,188 
26,460 
5,760 
1864 
„ 12 th 
6,660 
1,300 
20,960 
5,550 
1865 
„ 11th 
7,591 
1,620 
24,780 
5,300 
1866 
„ 17th 
7,228 
2,150 
19,125 
3,640 
1867 
„ 16th 
8,045 
1,350 
21,175 
7,320 
1868 
„ 14th 
5,351 
1,810 
17,640 
— 
1869 
„ 13th 
6,737 
1,135 
17,415 
4,420 
1870 
„ 12th 
6,253 
1,010 
19,770 
4,350 
1871 
„ 11th 
7,346 
985 
23,870 
6,630 
Citrate of Cafeine in Neuralgia. —Dr. Arnett states 
that he has had great success in the treatment of neuralgia, 
nervous headache, hysteria, and similar affections, by means 
of cafeine and sulphate of morphia. His formula is—sulph. 
morph, gr. ^; cafein, citric acid aa gr. iij; to be given in 
warm coffee, or, what is better, a decoction of race ginger. It 
acts powerfully on the skin, equalises the circulation, thereby 
removing local congestion. In the majority of cases the nervous 
irritation may be reduced without the sulphate of morphia.— 
Boston Journal . 
Absorption of Water by Leaves. —M. Cailletet, in a 
recent communication to the Acadtmie des Sciences , states 
his solution of the problem whether leaves absorb water. 
Various experimenters have reported contradictorily on the 
matter, and M. Duchartre, in his latest works, answers the 
question in the negative. M. Cailletet proves that both sets 
of observers are right, by showing that absorption differs 
according to the conditions of the plant. If it grows in a 
well-watered soil, its leaves never absorb water; but if it 
receive by its roots an insufficient quantity of water for its 
vegetation, the leaves, if they are moistened, will supply this. 
Thus a faded branch will recover all its freshness if its summit, 
or even only some leaves, be soaked in water, while plants 
may be thus made to live without being in contact with the 
soil, and quite isolated from all assimilable matter.— TJnion 
Medicate. 
