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exceed my expectations, and I was fo 
happy as to cure feveral perfons fpeedily 
and completely with this fmail infeét, find- 
ing mytfelf obliged to repeat the remedy 
only in the cafes of a few female patients. 
My method of proceeding was as iollows: 
J crufhed the infe& between my thumb and 
fore finger, and rubbed it between them 
till their points grew warm. With the 
fore finger and thumb thus prepared, I then 
rubbed both the affected part of the 
gum, and the aching tooth; upon which 
the pain, in every inftance, except in the 
cafes mentioned above, completely ceafed; 
I found, likewife, that the medicinal vir- 
tue of this infe&t was fo powerful and 
durable, that my fore finger was capable 
_of removing the Tooth-ache for fome days 
after, without crufhing an infect on it 
“afrefh. Itis net to beexpected, however, 
that this infect, when preferved dead, 
fhould produce the like effeét; as then its 
internal parts, in which its virtue may 
be prefumed chiefly to refide, are wholly 
dried up, leaving nothing but the wings 
and anempty fhell. I could with, there- 
fore, that fome ikilful phyfician would 
impart to me, from his own experience, 
a methed of preferving the virtte of this 
inie&i, fo that its efficacy may be in full 
vigour throughout the year.”” “The rea- 
ders of the Monthly Magazine wil! doubt- 
lefs recolleét 2 valuable contmunication of 
Dr. Benpoes on this fubjedt, in p. 722, 
for Nov. 1796. 
rie 
LALANDE is about to publifh a“ Hit 
tory ef the Heavens,” Hiffoire Ceélejie. 
‘The work is at the prefs, and in a itate 
oi confiderable forwardnefs. He is alfo 
“bufied in preparing for the prefs a ¢ Bi- 
bliograpay ot Aitronomy,”” Bibiographie 
A fir onomique. : 
Mr. Borpa’s Tables of Sines for the 
centefima! Divifion of the Quadrant, for 
_every ten thoufandth part of a centefimal 
degree, are already printed ; and the 
Logarithms of theie fines are in the preis. 
‘The grand meafurement of an Arc of 
the Meridian by the French Afirenomers, 
with DELAMBRE and MECHAIN at their 
head, which has been carried cn with 
‘wonderful perieverance and exertion, 1s 
early finifhed. Father Prazzi, the Af- 
tronomer, ot Palermo, is alfo about to 
meafure a degree in Sicily. 
Baron RACKNITZ is publifhing a very 
fplendid work at Leipfic, intended to ex- 
hibit the different ftyles of ornamenting 
the interior parts of edifices, in different 
countries, and in different ages. Each 
number, of which three haye already ap-_ 
Tooth-Ache....Prize Queftions. 
Lhe celebrated French Aftronomer,. 
[Sept . 
peared, contains fix folio coloured plates 
of infides of buildings, and as many of 
appropriate furniture. With the letter- 
preis of each, about 100 pages quarto, 
are 12 ‘uitable vignettes. The price 
eight gold frederics, or 71. fterling. The 
plates do honour to the Baren’s tafte, and 
are executed in a fuperb ftyle; and the 
diflertations accompanying them are of 
equal merit. 
Mr. Humsoutr has made feveral 
experiments on the fubjeét of the ger- 
mination of feeds in the oxy-muriatic 
acid, and has found that this acid has a 
remarkable effect in accelerating the pro- 
grefs of vegetation. The feeds of garden 
crefles, when thrown into the fluid at the 
temperature of 88, fhewed germs in three 
hours, while none were fech in water m 
26hours. Profeffor Poni, at Dreitien, 
produced in this manner vegetation from 
dried feeds in a colleétion of plants 120 
years old, and Meff. JACQUIN and VaN- 
DER SCHOTT, at Vienna, have caufed 
the growth of old feeds in the botanical 
garden, which had renfted every other 
method. 
Mr. VAAQUELIN has made a new ana- 
lyfis of the red lead ore of Siberia, and 
afferts that it contains a new metallic ecid, 
to which he gives the name of Cirome, 
on account of its property of colouring 
every fubftance combined with it. 
The NaTionaL InsTiruTeE has pro- 
pofd the following queftions : 
What are the grand revolutions which 
have taken place on the globe, and which 
are either indicated or proved by hiftory? 
The prize, a gold medal of five heéto- 
ammes. 
What are the inftitutions beft calcu- 
lated to eftablith the morals of a people? 
The prize, the fame as the above. 
The clafs of the Mathematical and 
Phyfical Sciences had propofed in 17925 
as a prize queftion, ‘* the ufes of the 
<¢ Liver in different claffes of animals ;” 
but not having received any {atisfactory 
memoir on this head, it now divides this 
queftion into two branches, each of them 
prize queftions : - the firft, an accurate 
anatomical and phyfiological defcription 
of the Liver in different animals, and the 
parts conneéted therewith; the fecond, 
an analyfis of the hepatic and cyftic Bile 
in the above animals. 
The Royat AcaDEMY of MEDICINE 
at BARCELONA has propofed the tollow- 
ing queftion: Whether Cold Baths are 
ufeful or prejudicial in diforders in the 
breait, and what their effects, according 
The 
to cirgumitances ? 
