cafe which refifted the strong mercurial ointment, alone, and combined with calomel, &c. &c. The poultice is thus madeone ounce of fulphat of foda was diffolved in 4 pounds of boiling water, and when perfectly cold, a little of this water was mixed with a small piece of the crumb of white bread, and kneaded with the fingers to the consistence of a soft poultice. This was applied fix times a day, and in two days a change of appearance took place, with confiderable abatement of pain, and the chancre gradually healed up.---In more than twelve cafes it was equally fuccefsful. The Doctor thinks this poultice tends to prevent the abforption of the fyphilitic poison, at the fame time that it produces a change in the action of the part. A much stronger folution proved effectual in two cafes of herpes. In gonorrhoea he found the above poultice diffolved to a thin mucilage highly useful, and he confiders it as among the first injections that have been discovered.

Ibid.

An officer many years in the army in the Eaft Indies, being ftruck with Mr. Churchman's ideas, of reducing to a fyftem all the changes of the land gaining on the fea, and the contrary, which are gradually carried on throughout the world, requefts us to make known a few facts which correspond with the Afiatic Researches. He was acquainted with a lady, who died at Madrafs in the year 1797, at the advanced age of ninety-fix years, who used to say that the fea had encroached there about three English miles, within her remembrance; that fome years ago a row of cocoa-nut trees stood at the place where the fhips now ride at anchor. From the time he left India, in 1794, until his return there in 1799, the fea had encroached fo much as to caufe the beach-house belonging to the customs, which stood at the fouth end of the fort, to be removed three miles to the north of it, and that the fea at that place continued to encroach gradually upon the land every year.* Tilloch.

• Travellers inform us, that the ruins of ancient Carthage are to be seen many feet below the surface of the water on that part of the African coast where it was

Profeffor Veau-de-Launay, in a letter to J. C. Delametherie, gives the following account of an accident with fulminating filver, in his laboratory.

"I had employed one of my pupils, a very good operator, to prepare a small quantity of fulminating filver, which he executed with skill.

The quantity obtained was about five grains, or a quarter of a gramme: it was depofited in a crystal capfule, about two lines in thickness. He had taken a fmall quantity, about half a grain, which was feparated with a card, and then dried, and afterwards detonated by flight friction. Next day, that is to fay 24 hours after the preparation, this young perfon was defirous of taking an equal quantity from the capsule to repeat the experiment, but he had scarcely touched the preparation with the corner of a card, when a violent detonation and explosion took place in the capfule, which was shattered into a thousand pieces. His face was covered with the vaporised preparation, which was almost black, and adhered strongly to the fkin; his eyes experienced a strong shock, which produced extreme pain; the opaque cornea became red and inflamed. Happily his fear was the greatest evil: by washing and bathing his eyes and face frequently with cold water, the effects of the detonation were foon diffipated.

Fortunately, none of the fragments of the glass had touched his eyes or his face; they were thrown nearly in a horizontal

fituated, and over which ships of confiderable size now fail without danger. The following, extracted fome years ago from a newspaper, fhews a still greater en'croachment of the sea upon the land.

"Though much has been lately faid of the fea's gaining upon the town of Dunwich, in Suffolk, its approaches upon the Yorkshire coaft are by no means less visible. Upon the tower of Hornsey church, near a small village within nine miles of Burlington, there is a stone with this infcription:

“Hornsey church! when I built thee,

Thou waft nine miles from the fea,

Nine miles from Burlington, and nine from Beverley.

This Hornsey church is now but one mile and a half from the fea."

E.

direction, to a confiderable distance: fome were thrown upwards of 12 feet.

As the effects of this preparation may have more calamitous confequences, I think it useful to be guarded against the dangers which it may occafion.

Nicholson's four.

SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

As the means of restoring fufpended animation, cannot be too widely diffufed, nor too frequently repeated, it is conceived the following obfervations from the Royal Humane Society may, with great propriety, be introduced into this work.

THE DROWNED.

1. WHAT THOU DOEST,---DO QUICKLY.

Editor.

2. HUMANE PERSONS are earnestly requested to prevent the drowned being rolled on cafks, or any violent means employed.

3. On perfons being drowned, or fuffocated, fend to the Receiving houfe. Order fpirits, flannels, &c. to be in readiness.

Directions for the refloration of the drowned; thofe fufpended by the cord; intenfe cold; or tremendous lightning.

1. Convey carefully the body, with the head raised, and fend to the nearest medical affiftant.

2. Strip, dry the body; clean the mouth and noftrils. 3. YOUNG CHILDREN to be put between two perfons in a warm bed.

4. An ADULT. Lay the unfortunate person on a bed, and in cold weather near the fire. In fummer expofe the body to the rays of the fun; and air fhould be freely admitted.

5. The body to be gently rubbed with flannel, sprinkled with fpirits, flour of mustard, &c. alfo a heated warming pan, properly covered, may be lightly moved over the back and fpine.

6. TO RESTORE BREATHING.

Introduce the pipe of a bellows, (when no apparatus is at hand,) into one noftril; the other, and the mouth being clofed, inflate the lungs, till the breaft be a little raised; the mouth and noftrils must then be let free: THIS PROCESS, to be repeated till the return of life.

7. The BREAST to be fomented with hot spirits; warm bricks or tiles covered, &c. to be applied to the foles of the feet, and palms of the hands.

8. TOBACCO SMOKE is to be thrown gently into the fundament with a proper inftrument, or the bowl of a pipe covered, fo as to defend the mouth of the affistant.

9. ELECTRICITY to be early employed either by the medical affiftants, or other judicious practitioners.

SALT NEVER TO BE EMPLOYED.

See 5th head.

INTENSE COLD.

Rub the body with fnow, ice, or cold water. Reftore warmth by flow degrees: if life does not foon return, the process of the drowned must be employed.

SUSPENSION BY THE CORD.

1. A few ounces of blood taken from the jugular vein; cupping-glaffes applied to the head and neck; leeches alfo, to the temples.

2. The other methods of treatment, the fame as recommended for the apparently drowned.

NOXIOUS VAPOURS.

COLD WATER, to be repeatedly thrown upon the face, &c. drying the body by intervals.

If the body feels cold, employ gradual warmth, and the plans for reftoring the drowned.

INTOXICATION.

The body to be laid on a bed, with the head raised; the neck-cloth, &c. removed.

Obtain immediately MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, as the modes of treatment must be varied according to the circumstances of the patient.

RETURNING LIFE.

THE RESUSCITATING PROCESS fhould be applied in a more gentle and cautious manner. Stimulants, &c. on the return of animation are now only to be employed with a view to affist and strengthen languid vitality.

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