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One of Thompson's disciples, at Ogdensburg, N.Y. recently prescribed to a pulmonary patient the inhaling of the fumes of burning sulphur! This was only a foretaste of the

PAINTING ON GLASS.

which, from the proximity of numerous sources of impurity, is bad enough to sicken the stomach, and to turn the cheek pale. Hence some boys, instead of going out at all, re-burning lake.' The patient howmain to lounge and doze on their ever was rescued from the jaws of seats till they are again summoned death by his friends. to their books. We have seen fine lads, who would have been brisk and cheerful, under fair treatment, return from this school so exhausted and dispirited, as to be fit for nothing but the sofa or couch. And yet we boast that our seats of justice, our halls of legislation, our statesmen and professional ranks have been, and are to be recruited, from this nursery, as if it were right or requisite that our sons, while their minds are disciplined, expanded and strengthened by imbibing the literature of antiquity and the science of our own period, should be compelled to neglect their organs of motion and sense, and with the lessons of wisdom to inhale at the same time mephitic gases, active enough to im. pair their health, and with other causes of physical degeneracy, to undermine their constitutions!

Notwithstanding all this, the Public Latin School of Boston is an institution of which we have cause to be proud, or rather much reason to be grateful for the vigilance and foresight of our virtuous ancestors, its founders; and of late we have had cause to be satisfied with the manner in which we have sustained and carried forward their benevolent wishes and designs,-excepting always the cloud of physical evils which hangs heavily over its reputation, and obscures its otherwise unspotted lustre.

The Count de Noe, a peer of France, and a great lover of the arts, professes, not to have discovered the ancient method of painting on glass, but to have invented a new tures painted by him on glass have method of equal value. Four picbeen lately inserted in the windows of the chapel at Luxembourg, and elsewhere; and are spoken of in terms of great praise by the Parisian de Chabrol, the prefect of the Seine, critics. In conjunction with the Count the Count de Noe has established a special school for painting on glass, under the direction of some of the most skilful French painters.

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DICTIONARY.

Amenorrhea, a partial or total obstruction of the menstrual secretion. Bronchia, the branches or ramifications of the bronchos, or windpipe. Erethism, increased irritability and sensibility.

Exostosis, a morbid enlargemeut of a bone.

Ichor, a thin, aqueous, and acrid discharge.

Os frontis, the bone of the forehead.

Parietes, the walls, coats or lining of any cavity, or vessel.

Sarcoma, a fleshy excrescence. Sanies, a bloody, thin, bad discharge from sores.

Scirrhus, a hard tumor, commonly not readily suppurating. of some glandular part,-indolent,

Varicose veins, morbidly enlarged veins.

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MEDICAL INTELLIGENCER.

JOHN G. COFFIN, M.D., EDITOR.

THE BEST PART OF THE MEDICAL ART, IS THE ART OF AVOIDING PAIN.

VOL. 5.

TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1827.

From the London Literary Gazette.
MEDICAL ESSAYS.-NO. IV.
"First the infant,

Mewling and paking in the nurse's arms."
Shakspeare.

"The straits of infancy, in which multitudes had perished, some by the weak ness and fragility of their vessels, and more by the folly, perverseness, or negligence, of those who undertook to steer

them."-The Rambler.

No. 3.

that the moral management of
children should commence; for
the disposition being unformed, it
is of vital importance to secure
the primary step in its formation;
and to impress at first the most
desirable characters on the yet
yielding and ductile mass.
In at-
tempting this, we are to regard
both the personal welfare and the
social connexions of the adult in-
dividual-to regulate personal
feelings-to promote generous

Having, in the foregoing Essays, pointed out those circumstances connected with the clothing, diet, and exercise of infants, impulses to lay the foundations which are requisite for the pre- of truth, and, consequently, of servation of health, it remains to happiness and it is undeniable, inquire what influence moral man- that the education necessary to agement is calculated to exert on effect these objects may be comthe physical powers of the body menced even within the period at this early period of life? which properly comprehends the infantine age, by proper attention to the formation of proper habitsto the indulgence of some desires, and the repression of others-and by the judicious developement of mind.

In tracing the dawnings of intellect in the human animal, it is apparent, that the whole operations of the infant, during the first month of its existence, are altogether automatic. The nervous system is susceptible of the stimulus of heat and light, of odorous and of sapid bodies; but, as yet, nothing that indicates mind is conspicuous; and it is not till after this period, that the faculties of the soul gradually unfold themselves; and the actions of the child demonstrate a consciousness of volition, of the existence of external objects, and a power of selection and of rejection, with other anticipations of reason. It is at this stage of life, therefore,

1. Formation of proper habits in childhood.--If a child be suckled, dressed, and undressed, and every other little operation connected with its situation, be performed at stated times, habits will be fixed, and the infant will be not only rendered comfortable by the regular performance of these offices, but will acquire the power of waiting patiently, and without suffering uneasiness, till the recurrence of the customary periods. The quietude produced by

so regular a system is highly favorable to health, and the foundation of a placid and equable temper is thus commenced. In infancy, every cause of irritation is connected with corporeal feelings; and when, by attending to the method which I recommend, the wants of the child are regulated so as to recur only at stated times, and are supplied exactly at the periods of their recurrencecauses of irritation are anticipated, and the temper is preserved in such a state of equanimity as to leave the animal functions unimpaired, for promoting the growth and strength of the body. On the contrary, if a mother or a nurse be irregular in the performance of the various duties connected with the nourishment and the comfort of the infant, constant causes of irritation must necessarily arise; every burst of fretfulness and of passion-by hurrying the passage of the blood through the brain, the glandular system, and particularly through the liver -will change the characters of the secretions separated from the last mentioned organ; and as a certain state of these juices is requisite for carrying on the processes of digestion and assimilation, whatever tends to deprave them must diminish the growth and vigor of the body, and favor the production of disease. Many mothers endeavor to throw the blame of the evils produced by their own mismanagement and irregularities, on Nature; and refer the peevishness and irascible tempers of their infants to connatural disposition: but, though it must be admitted that some individuals are born with a greater susceptibility of nervous impression than others, yet even this may be

moderated by regulating the wants and methodizing the diurnal habits of the infant. A mother who suckles her child every hour, or as often as it cries, without attention to regularity while she is at home, and then leaves it for several hours, when business

or amusement calls her abroad, cannot be astonished to find the infant exhausted with crying--the only means by which it can express its wants-when she returns; nor is it surprising, that the temporary fever induced by this state of irritation, the overcharged state of stomach which must result in the habit of the infant from a full supply on an eager demand for food, and the state of the nutriment itself from the overcharged and heated condition of the organ which supplies it should be followed by disease and a long train of the most serious evils. The formation, therefore, of regular habits in infancy, is of great importance, so far as the physical energies and the temper of the child are concerned; and it is not less important to the comfort and convenience of the mother. How little trouble attends the care of the infant who takes rest, and is exercised, and cleaned, and suckled, at stated hours, compared with that of one whom caprice and circumstances only control! The mother, in the first instance, is unrestrained in following any object of business or amusement which may engage her attention out of her nursery, because she knows the precise periods when her presence there shall be required; whereas in the second, she must be constantly with her child, and either be its slave or become indifferent to its clamors

misery, when they cannot be gratified. As infants are altogether creatures of habit, moral management commenced at a sufficiently early period, may be exercised, without altering natural character-if there be such a state-and occasion the child to

--a disposition fortunately of great rarity; for, whatever may be the failings of the sex, no mother can hear the cry of her infant without endeavoring to soothe it; and where can it find consolation but on that bosom which is the fountain of its nourishment, and the cradle of all its little escape much sorrow and many cares? On the other hand, if dangers which arise to physical she ventures to leave her nurse- health from temper and mental ry, she must do so with the certainty of her infant's suffering, and consequently, with an anxiety which poisons the current of every enjoyment.

2. Limits to which indulgence to the inclinations of a child may be extended. In examining this point, the nature of these Essays requires that I preface my remarks by declaring, that it is the physical influence only of this branch of moral management on the health and bodily energies of the child that comes under my consideration. It is not an uncommon remark, that life is so replete with misery, that we ought not to cloud its morning by lessening the pleasures which attend on the steps of infancy; that the whims and caprices of the child should be indulged to the full; and that restraints and punishments are incompatible with this period of life. It must, indeed, be admitted, that it would be cruelty to check the exuberance of enjoyment, which is the natural lot of this age; when, like the spring in the natural year, all is promise, and verdure, and flowers, and sunshine but, at the same time, it is necessary to draw the distinction between those indulgences which secure real and substantial enjoy ment, and those which form and foster artificial desires, and only contribute to the production of

irritation. Thus, as I have already stated, if a habit of regularity be induced in the earliest stage of life, the exercise of patience becomes almost natural to the infant; and in the same manner, if every desire be not complied with, however painful to the infant may be the first disappointment, the result will be most satisfactory, in setting aside many an anxious moment to the parent, and many a punishment to the child. In infancy, as in riper age, the gratification of every desire only tends to create new wants; and with these arises a morbid sensitiveness, which renders many circumstances of the most trifling description sources of real misery. This is particularly the case in children who are yet unable to express their feelings and wishes in language; for in them the disappointment is frequently productive of paroxysms of irascibility and passion, which cause a determination of blood to the head, that may terminate in apoplexy, or produce inflammation of the membranes of the brain, and its sequent, water in the head. The liveliest and most intellectual children are those most liable to fall into such paroxysms: and therefore it is the duty of every parent to repress selfish desires in their progeny— to accustom children from a very

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