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Several inhabitants of a village of France, in the department of Oillier, have just experienced the most dreadful symptons by feeding on spurred rye. It was found necessary to amputate the leg of a child, and the mother and remaining children are in a very precarious state.

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THE SALE OF POISONS IN PARIS.-Two pharmacien's assistants in the
French capital, Messrs. Brown and Walshe, employed in the establish-
ment of Paris, Pommier, and Co., were lately fined respectively £1 13s.,
and £16, for having sold to a Miss Ogle, the first, one drachm and a
half, and the second, one ounce and one drachm of Battley's solution.
Miss Ogle wilfully poisoned herself with the preparation, and the pro-
prietors of the establishment were held responsible for the payment of
the fines. Would it not be wholesome if a few home-thrusts of this kind
were dealt in this country?
D.-Chicory, from its narcotic properties, produces injurious effects on the
nervous system. Professor Beer, the celebrated oculist of Vienna, is so
convinced of this fact, that he has enumerated chicory coffee among the
causes of amaurotic blindness.

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FRANK J. HARRISON (Clapham).—See answer to C. F. ROBINSON in this
G. M. (Sleights).-Consult Mr. Wilson, of Whitby.
HERBERT LACY (Stanmore).-The advertising "Consulting Surgeons" are
fearful Jew quacks. Avoid them as you would a mad dog or a Smith-
field ox.

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answer to ROBERT HAWSON, in No. 7, you will find some information
bearing upon your application.

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TYPHUS FEVER, similar to that which usually results from bad and insufficient food, is becoming very prevalent in Cork. A hundred patients are at present in the poor hospital there.

EDWARD THOMAS B. (Cardiff).- Strychnia is the alkaloid discovered in nux vomica-the poison nut. It is the most energetic poison next to prussic acid.

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M.-First-Healthy men are not subject to such occurrences.

SecondIf neglected, they become "destructive." Third-All may be remedied. A MILLINER (John Street, Oxford Street). Take four grains of the compound aloetic pill every night. An occasional warm bath will be of much benefit to you.

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drop," or "carbuncled face." Shakspere, in describing the physi-
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whilks, and knobs, and flames of fire." These protuberances are the
real grog blossoms.
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eat sparingly of animal food.

ALEXIS. The man is not a Jew, but he is an empiric.
HOMEOPATHIC FEATS.-We learn from the Medical Gazette of Madrid, that
an unfortunate patient, affected with constitutional syphilis, died lately,
after taking globules for a whole year, worn out by the most distressing
syphilitic cachexia. This man was so blindly attached to the homoeo-
pathic deceit, that he would not hear of any other kind of treatment than
that which led him to his grave.

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MATER. Under the circumstances you mention, we should not advise chloroform.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.-Not any improvement has taken place in the health of the metropolis. The number of deaths registered was 1002; in the ten corresponding weeks of the last ten years, it was generally under 900. This average, when corrected for increase of population, is 961; compared with which the present return exhibits an excess of 41. Affections of the respiratory organs generally at present show a mortality considerably above the average. Two deaths were recorded of which intemperance is stated to have been the cause; besides another cause in which fatal disease seems to have been the fruit of habitual drinking.-The births of 752 boys and 715 girls, in all 1467 children, were registered. The average of six of the corresponding weeks in 1845-50, was 1366.

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FIGURE XLII.

A. The Occipital part of the Occipito-
frontalis.

The Tendinous part of this muscle.

A Tendinous Membrane, joining the op-
posite sides of the muscle.

Part of the Tendinous Membrane, cover-
ing the upper part of the temporal
muscle.

The Attollens Aurem.

G. The Anterior Auris.

H. A small portion of the Retrahens Aurem.
1. The back part of the Orbicularis Palpe-

K. The Zygomaticus Major.
L. The Masseter.

M. The Pterygoideus Internus.
N. The Platysma Myoides.

0. The Sterno-Cleido-Mastoideus..
P. The upper end of the Trapezius.
Q. The Tendinous portion of that muscle in
the nape of the neck, called Ligamen-
tuno Nucha.

to the cellular membrane of the neck; it requires some skill in dissection to display this muscle, for as it is merely a web of muscular fibres, it is frequently removed with the integuments unnoticed. Superiorly it extends over the face to the angle of the jaw, where its fibres are lost in the cellular tissue of the cheek, and inferiorly its fibres cover a portion of the pectoral and deltoid muscles (see fig. xl.). The outer surface is covered by the skin. Its use is to assist in drawing down the jaw and angle of the mouth, to wrinkle the skin of the neck, and when the mouth is shut, to bring the skin under the lower jaw upwards.

Sterno-cleido-mastoideus (b, fig. xl.; M, fig. xli.; e, fig. xlii.). This powerful, and in general well-marked muscle, is situated at the side of the neck. Its name denotes its attachments, namely, to the sternum or breast bone, to the clavicle or collar bone, and to the mastoid or nipple-like process of the temporal bone. The outer surface is covered by the platysma myoides, excepting at its upper extremity, which lies under the skin and parotid gland; between it and the preceding muscle the external jugular vein and some nervous filaments of the cervical plexus are situated. The inner surface is connected with the articulation of the breast bone and the collar bone, and with the outer muscles of the neck and upper extremity. Its use is to bring the head forwards, to turn it to one side, and to assist in rotating it. When both muscles act, they bow the head. Cases of WRY NECK consequent upon the undue action of this muscle, are of frequent occurrence, and it should always be borne in mind that the muscles on the side to which the neck is twisted are not those affected, but those on the opppsite side. In those cases of wry neck which result from the irregular action of muscles, if the sterno-cleido-mastoideus be chiefly affected, what is to be done? We must endeavour to tranquillize the muscles. There are many of those cases entirely the result of a disturbed state of nerves, caused by disordered digestive organs and whether this be universally the case or not, I (says Mr. Abernethy) will tell you of one absolute undoubted instance of it. This happened in a tall boy at school; he was seized with a wry neck, they leeched him, and blistered him, and made bad worse, and after a week he was sent up to town. I say he was a tall, lanky boy; and, upon my life, I thought a pullet's neck could not have been more twisted round than this was. I told him to lie on a sofa, or couch, or bed, and to support the head with pillows; never to sit upright; never to put the head in a position to demand muscular action for support, since, if the muscles did act, they would act in this faulty manner. I told him to foment his neck by flannels; to keep it in a kind of tepid bath; to keep himself in a kind of perspiration; and I applied the whole of my attention to put his digestive organs to rights. His bowels were all wrong-his tongue furred, and of a bad colour. A week elapsed, and his stomach and bowels_got into a decent state, and his wry neck was entirely gone. But you see if this is neglected in the outset, then muscles get a habit of perverse action, and you have wry necks established beyond removal, even by putting the digestives to rights, though that I believe to be a most direct and efficient mode of cure in every instance. But I know that there are cases of wry neck, where people have their necks twisted, and the muscles put into such an irritable state of action, that the cases do not yield quickly, even to what I should consider the most judicious and appropriate treatment. But, now, in reading books of surgery, you find the proposition of dividing the sterno-cleido-mastoideus muscle, in order to set people's heads right on their shoulders. Now, I did live for a very great part of my life, and I did not know what the plague those people meant by this; I never could meet with a case where such an operation could for a moment have been rationally thought of; then, as curious cases are something like misfortunes,

that is, they never come alone, in one year I met with four cases
requiring an operation in the sterno-cleido-mastoideus. All
these cases appeared to me to be of the same nature; I mean to
say, it appeared to me that the muscle appeared to be originally
mal-formed; that the clavicular part of the muscle was shorter
than it should have been; it was irritable, and drew the mas-
toid process towards the collar bone. And note the consequence :
the people-children they were, for they were not more than
fifteen or sixteen years of age-had all grown wry in their backs;
the vertebral column had become completely deformed.
(To be continued.)

THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS.
(Continued from page 172.)

THE BITE OF A MAD DOG-HYDROPHOBIA-(continued).
As to the medical treatment of hydrophobia, nothing can be
said to offer any rational hope of alleviation of the symptoms.
All the most powerful remedies in the Pharmacopoeia have
proved equally ineffectual opium, mercury, strychnia, prussic
acid. Indeed it is useless to enumerate the category of medicines
which have been employed, as no preference can be attached
to one where all have proved useless. Bleeding and cold ef-
fusions have proved equally ineffectual. But it is not on this
account, therefore, that our exertions should be stayed: on the
contrary, they should be exerted to the fullest extent, for with
the improvements that science is daily making, we may yet hope
that some light may be thrown upon the subject, and that we
may yet be permitted to overcome this direful disease, by the
discovery of some antidote to the poison; for there is every
reason to believe that rabies does not affect any particular system,
but influences the whole organismus, by producing a change in
the blood which unfits it for the general purpose of nutrition.
Post-mortem examinations have thrown hitherto so little light
upon the subject as to the cause of death in hydrophobia, that it
is useless to dwell upon the various morbid appearances which
have been recorded as the result of these investigations. The
most general opinion, however, seems to be, that there is some
change in the appearance of the nerves.
The following cases illustrate the different modes of treating
this fearful malady.

HYDROPHOBIA TREATED WITH MORPHIA.

Edward Lynch, an Irishman, aged 26, was admitted into Billet Ward, Guy's Hospital, under Dr. Babington, on September 26th, 1837.

About five weeks before admission, a dog, whom he had been thrusting at with a pitchfork, sprang at him, and bit his upper lip and cheek. He immediately seized the animal and strangled it with a hay-band. The bitten part of the lip was speedily excised, but not that of the cheek. Nothing material followed till Saturday, the 23rd of September, when, after drinking two or three quarts of beer, he was taken with a fit of vomiting, and experienced great distress at the sight of some fresh meat.

On Sunday he was very unwell, but had no spasm; and in the afternoon he went into a deep sleep, from which he was with difficulty awakened. On Monday morning spasms came on, and he became worse.

On Tuesday, at 9 A.M., he was admitted into this hospital. On admission his condition was as follows: He had no pain anywhere, but experienced great lassitude and a sense of constriction about his throat. He took a table-spoonful of milk, but could drink no water. His voice was feeble, and resembled a loud whisper. The countenance was anxious, and he was