1800.] Sixty Articles of Literary and Philfophical Intelligence. 
enable England to furpafs other countries 
in this fpec'es of repreientations of the re- 
mains of ancient art. 
Hopes are entertained by the friends of 
Dr. j. Gruvres, that he may be induced 
to favour the public with his travels on 
the Continent, which occupied above fix- 
teen years, in. Germany, France, Switzer 
land, Spain, and Italy. 
Of the ingenious and philcfophic Citt- 
zen Birauss’s Obfervations on the prin- 
ciples of Policy of the Ancients we have re- 
ceived an Englith verfion, from the pen of 
a gentleman to whom the public are in- 
debted for tranflations of feveral approved 
works from the French. We thall infert 
a portion of it in our next Number, and. 
prefent our readers with the fequel in fuc- 
cefive continuations. | 
A very curious and fcientific paper has 
appeared in the lat volume of the Philo- 
fophieal Tranfactions of the Royal Socie- 
ty of London, by Mr. AsTLeY CooPeER, 
furgeon, on the effect produced on the 
fenie of hearing, by a perforation or entire 
lofs of the membrana tympani (drum of 
of the ear). It has generally been ma- 
eined that fuch an accident would be at- 
tended with complete deafnels : but feveral 
cafes here related, fhew that the lofs of 
this fenfe is but very partial, and fome- 
times even fo little as to ‘produce but 
flight inconvenience. A perforation of 
this membrane is indicated when air or 
fmeke ean be driven from the mouth 
through the external ear. 
Any thing which has a tendency to 
cure or even to relieve. perfons- afflicted 
with that dreadful diftemper, epilepfy, 1s 
entitled to the attention of the public ; 
the following lines on the fubjeét are quot- 
ed from LALaANDS. “¢ There was lately 
brought to Citizen PorRTAL, a young la- 
dy who was every day attacked by violent 
epileptic fits. They began in one of her 
toes; which circumftdnce fuggeited to 
that able anatomift the idea of cutting the 
nerve, for the purpofe of interrupting the 
communication: but he began by the ap- 
plication of opium to the nerve; and that 
alone proved fuflicient to effect a complete 
CUE .1, iy a 
A large and valuable collection of mi- 
nerals, containing nearly twelve thoufand 
fpecimens, is now on fale in Germany. 
The price required is rsool. This cabi- 
net is particularly rich in metals, about 
half the {pecimens belonging to this clafs: 
among thele are 235 of gold, 620 of fil- 
ver, 325 of mereury, «1292 of copper, 
and 1309 of iron. The volcanic clafs 
contains 578, the filiceous 1851 (of which 
453 
the zeolites and calcedonies are numerous 
and uncommonly beautiful), and the cal- 
careous and argillaceous 2261. The whole 
collection is arranged in fixteen prefles, aca 
companied by an exact fyf{ematic cata- 
logue. Further particulars may be had 
by applying to Baron KoLBiELsKI at 
Hildefie:m. 
In 1797, the births at Berlin were 6235 
which is more than one-twentieth of the 
population, this latter being reckoned at 
164,978- Only one in thirty died in that 
year, which is a remarkably {mall pro- 
portion for a metropoiis. Of the 6235 
births, 1239 died within the firit year. 
The fame fuperiority in the number of 
births over the deaths obtained in the 
whole EleSiorate of Brandenburg. 
A phyfician at Leipfic has propofed the 
internal ufe of charcoal in an epidemical 
diftemper among the cattle which had been 
very fatal. The firlt experiment; however, 
did not fucceed. 
Dr. Gururie, of St. Peterfburg, in a 
letter to Profeffor Duncan, of Edinburgh, 
mentions a curieus remedy, which has 
performed the cure of a dropfical ¢ale, 
which was, to fwallow daily a table- 
fpoonful of common fand. This remedy 
was found to purge pretty brifkly, which 
was followed by a relief of all the fymp- 
toms. 
An attempt was made fome years ago, 
by a fociety of patriotic Jews in Pruffia, 
affociated under the name of ‘¢ the Friendly 
Society,”” to abolith the cuftom prevalent 
with that people of burying their bodies 
almoft imimediately after death. For this 
purpofe, houles were erected for receiving 
the dead, and feveral Jews entered into the 
vievis of the fociety ; but the majority 
ftill adhere to the practices of their ancef- 
tors. It feems, however, to have excited 
fome attention from government. 
Some time ago we mentioned the pro- 
‘pofal of a new remedy for the tooth ache, 
by M. Hrrascu of Hanover. This con- 
fitted in bruifing the coccinella feptem punc- 
tata (lady-bird), and rubbing it on the 
eum of the tooth affected. A fimilar proper- 
ty has been found in the white maggot of 
the cyzips rofarum, which inhabits thofe 
hairy excrefcences that abound in autumn 
on the wild-rofe tree: according to M. 
Hirfch, this application has fucceeded, 
where the other has failed, and poffeffes, 
befdes, the furiher advantage of being 
procurable in winter, and not irritating 
the sums like the coccimella. : 
The following fact will give fome idea 
of the immenfe exertions made by the 
French in the fabrication of cannon during 
the 
