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burdened their peoplé with 
pofts. He added: 
Ce que je vous dis-lt, je le dirois au roi. 
‘The cenfor erated this verfe.; the poet 
exceflive im- 
defended it, but was obliged to yield to. 
the obftinacy of the Ariftarchus. After 
taking’ a turn or two in the ftreet, LE-- 
MONNIER returns, reciting this new 
verfe : : 
Ce gue je vous dis-/d, je fe dirois. 2. tais-toi. 
This alteration was approved, and the 
cenfor did not perceive thet the fatirical 
trait was only the better feafoned by it. 
With this hatred for abufes, Lemon- 
NIER faw with joy the commencement 
of a revolution which promiied a reform 
of them. ‘The inhabitants of the village 
of which he was cxré had found him, 
till then, a father, tender, compatiionate, 
and generous to profufion; they now 
found him a prudent and enlightened 
guide: terror, however, which refpeét- 
ed neither talents nor virtues, threw him, 
during eighteen months, into a prifon, 
from which he would not have come out, 
without a 9th Thermidor, unlefs to 
mount a fcaffold. He came out of it, 
however, and, what is no flight trait in 
his character, without having loft aay 
thing of his love for a republic. 
Notice OF THE Memoirs oF Puy- 
SICAL SCIENCES, DURING. THE 
LAST QUARTER, BY LACEPEDE, 
ONE OF THE ScCRETARIES. 
Lassus, ina Memoir on Opiun, that 
fubftance fo often employed in medicine, 
and fo dreaded over almoft all tue globe, 
-and which, according to its preparation 
and quantity, may be an agreable cordial 
or a mortal poifon, has dhown the cffeéts 
(almoft unknown before him) produced 
by this dangerous matter, when taken in 
too great abundance; he has alfo deter- 
mined the principal featin which its de- 
leterious power exercifes itfelf. 
SABATHIER, after having treated in 
a particular memoir of the different 
caufes which produce fraciures of the 
. fernum, and of the different means em- 
ployed to heal them, occupied the clafs 
with one of the moft dreadful maladies 
to which human nature is fubje‘t—mad- 
_nefs, that affection fo terrifying in its 
fymptoms, and ratal in its effecis. Be- 
ginning with the hiftory of perfons bitten 
by mad dogs, and the treatment of thofe 
whom he has dice¢ted or obferved ; com- 
bining the periods at which the accidents 
»which charattcrize maduefs have appear- 
‘ed in different individuals ; comparing 
)thefe periods with the places of the bites ; 
_ unfolding the figns which fucceed one an- 
| Montrury Mac. No. XXII. 
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Proceedings of the National Inftitute. 
other, unite, and terminate in death ; 
fhowing at length the interior ftate of the 
corpfes of the victims of madnels; Sa- 
BATHIER infers from the itrongeft pre- 
{umptions, that amputation or cauteriza- 
tion, employed in time on the part of 
the body impregnated with the .hydro- 
phobic virus, are the only preventative 
Operations. 
TeENoN, whofe labours have been 
chiefly directed to comparative anatomy, 
has been inveftigating the ftate of the 
jaw-bones of animals, at the different 
periods of their lives; and -having frft 
carefully obferved the growth of the 
molar teeth ina numberof horfes, of dif 
ferent ages, he has proceeded to difcover, 
in the different. forms .which the ftruc- 
ture of the horfe’s jaw prefents, faéts 
very important from the application 
which may be made of them. 
Huzarxp, after having combined a 
number of obfervations made by himfelf, 
GILBERT, and other naturalifts, relative 
to calves which have remained in the bo- 
dies of their dams many. months after 
the ufual time of their calving, has de- 
{cribed the caufes, the nature, and the 
eitects of thefe phenomena, and deduced 
ufeful confequences from them. 
_ Cuvier has thrown a new light on 
the interior conformation of the family of 
animals which comprizes the largeit {pe- 
cies, namely, cetaceous animals. He has 
particularly examined their organs of - 
fenfe, and furnifhed fome curious obfer- 
vations on the difpofition of the noftrils 
of the porpefie, as well as of the dolphin, 
on the form of their pharynx, and on tke 
power which they have of ejeéting the. 
{ea- water to a greater or lefs height. 
VENTENAT has inveftigated the plant 
called the creeping epige@a, and another 
rare plant (both of which vegetated 
in the garden of Ces); he has eftab- 
lithed their charaéters, defcribed their 
form, indicated their native country, and 
affigned their place in the general cata- 
logue of vegetable produtions. 
CouLomB, by announcing the phe- 
homena prefented by the motion of 
fap, as well as.the afcenfion of an aéri- 
form fluid in the. interior of trees, and , 
which had till now efcaped the natural- 
‘ ifts, has opened a new field of refearches 
to thofe who ftudy the phyfical fate of ‘ 
plants. 
CeLis anounced the experiments of 
BeRMOYD onthe iugar-cane, and many 
other foreign planis (particularly fuck - 
as are moft valuable in the colonies) cul- 
vated under the mild fkies of Nice. Ie 
ke appear 
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