VINEGAR.

fects. In the second case, bleeding COLICA PICTONUM CURED BY MEANS OF had been previously, but ineffectually employed, and the hemoptysis continued abundant. On the second day of the administration of the nitre, no trace of blood was perceptible in the expectoration. The medicine was continued for two days more, as a precautionary measure. In this patient, no inconvenience to the stomach was produced by the nitre. The third case was that of a man 45 years of age, who had been subject to severe hemoptysis for ten years previously, the attacks recurring about once in two years, and generally giving way to blood-letting and leeches to the anus. The hemopty sis had this time continued three days, accompanied by great embarrassment of the breathing, and a crepitous rattling in the lower part

He

of the left side of the thorax.
had been bled several times before
he entered the hospital, both locally
and generally, but the hemoptysis
continued. Like the two other pa-
tients be took the nitrous mixture.
The second day he felt much less
enfeebled-the expectoration wae
not so bloody. The treatment was
continued, and the expectoration soon
became untinged with blood and
puriform. Ultimately, however, the
patient sunk with regular hectic fe-
ver, presenting, on dissection, seve-
ral tubercular excavations in both
lungs.

We have certainly seen good effects from nitre in considerable doses, given in the common infusion of roses, well acidulated, in conjunction with laudanum in hemoptysis; but we never gave it in such doses as above, nor have we seen such doses exhibited by others. The remedy is worth trial.*—Med. Chi. Rev.

"The liberal use of nitre in hemoptysis," says Dr N. Chapman, of Philadelphia, is a practice which I have for several years strongly recommended in my lectures, and a solution of it in brandy is a popular nostrum in this city."

Captain A-, a painter, had the habit of putting his painting pencil in his mouth, after using it in different colors, which contained more or less lead. In the beginning of December, 1823, he experienced slight colics, with dryness of mouth, and constipation: all these symptoms increased, notwithstanding remedies had been used, till the 22d of December, when he was most violently attacked with great anxiety, thirst, hiccough, nausea, and constipation. Dr Vergari prescribed, during three days, oleaginous, saline, and drastic purgatives, enemata, baths, and diluent drinks, without making the least impression on the disease. He now determined to try a mixture of two ounces of vinegar and two pounds of water: this was no sooner administered than it operated like a charm ; the pains ceased immediately, the patient fell into a sweet sleep, and had several alvine evacuations as soon as he awoke. The vinegar was repeated two or three times a day till the seventh day, when the patient was perfectly free of disease. Hufeland's Journal.

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CHILDREN'S FOOD.

and bread, became so tame that he A lady of Yorkshire observes in a letter went about the house like a spaniel, dated May 2d, that in consequence of and slept on the same bed with him. losing her first three children, one during Mr Parker was bled for a fever, and teething, and two of inflammation in the bowels, she gave her fourth child a little slept after it; soon he awoke, for limewater in every article of food, adding his hitherto peaceable companion a desert, and sometimes only a teaspoon- had gnawed through his sleeve, deful of limewater to every article, whether tached the compress, and was licking liquid or thick. It succeeded in keeping the blood from the orifice. Mr P. up healthy digestion, and a regular state of the bowels; the child instead of being and the tiger were in a mutual confeverish, flatulent, and fretful, as her pre- sternation when he rose from the ceding children had been, continued cool bed; the tiger gave a spring to the and cheerful, free from any symptom of top of a high chest of drawers, from indigestion, and cut its teeth without any, thence in a horrible phrenzy ran constitutional disturbance. She has conabout the house, and having escaped So long to the garden, was shot. as he fed on common food, it appears he was perfectly tractable, but the moment he tasted blood, all the ferocious propensities of his nature burst forth.-Raleigh Register.

tinued this practice with two more of her children with the same good effects. We have known this simple addition to the food of children, prove very efficacious in incipient cases of rickets and of irritable bowels, attended with looseness, &c., but if the child be disposed to costiveness on account of its astringent quality, a little magnesia should be occasionally added to it.-Gazette of Health.

This is much better advice than we

commonly get from the public prints; it only needs a little explanation to be good. Limewater is useful in cases of relaxed bowels and acid stomachs, and of course useless, if not hurtful in the opposite state of these organs. The above notice seems to imply that it would be beneficial for all children. But is this true? Can any thing be done for a child perfectly well, better than to continue that diet and that mode of living which are found to have given him health?

Is it not wiser to be contented when we are well, than to disturb the sound functions of the system in order to prevent a disease which may never attack us, by the premature taking of physic? It is not profitable to commence even a war of defence, till we have an enemy to resist.

The influence of intemperance in drink on the animal spirits, is justly deprecated by all who feel the degradation which is consequent on excesses of this nature. The influence of diet on animal bodies is forcibly illustrated by the following fact from a treatise by Dr Mosely. A Mr Parker of Kingston, had a young tiger, which by being fed on milk, sugar

THE HEART.-It has ever been supposed that the heart was the most vital part of man, and that a wound, however trivial, received in it would produce instantaneous death.

M. Larrey, the well known French surgeon, lately presented to the Academy of Medicine in Paris, the heart of a man, who, in a fit of derangement, produced by grief, stabbed himself with a watchmaker's file. After having penetrated several inches, the instrument broke off level with the skin. The unhappy being was conveyed to an hospital, where it was determined no operation could be attempted. He survived for twentyone days, in but little pain, and without feeling any difficulty in changing his position. On opening the body, it was seen with surprise that the file had not only pierced the pericardium, and one of the coats of the heart, but that, entering this organ three inches from the point, it had passed obliquely, from the left to the right, and from the lower to the higher part; crossing the left cavity, the middle membrane, and the right cavity.

Caries, rottenness, or mortification of the bones.

Cholera, is a purging and vomiting of bile, with anxiety, painful gripings, with spasms of the abdominal muscles and calves of the legs.

Chyme, the soft mass of food as it passes out of the stomach, from which the chyle is elaborated in the small intestines. It is absorbed from the surface of the alimentary canal, and thence enters the blood vessels.

Colyloid, the cavity which receives the head of the thighbone.

Enemata, injections, clysters.

Femur, and os femoris, the thighbone. Fistula, a long and sinuous ulcer; it is often a narrow opening leading to a large cavity.

Gastric, pertaining to the stomach. The gastric juice is a fluid separated from the blood by the small exhaling arteries of the stomach, and is poured into the cavity of this organ. It is the principal agent of digestion.

Hemoptysis, a spitting of blood. Moxa, several different preparations, all of which are intended to be burnt on the skin, for some healing purpose. Pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs. Variolated, inoculated with smallpox.

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HE Trustees have the satisfaction to

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