The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-05 00:00:00

ATTACK ON A LADY BY A BOA
CONSTIUC [OR.

A correspondent st Oxford attecti the soeurscy of the
following itatemont :—A member of the University of
Oxford, who bad lodgings in Highxtreet of that city,
kept • good sized specimen of the boa construstor it a
loos in is rooms, and recently the daughter of the IMnd-
Ind,, st,racted by a momment of the lid, opened it,
when her hand was seised by the reptile with a firm
gruii, which became tightened aa it coiled round her
arm. The young lady, although nearly frightened to
death. screamed for help, and on the arrival of
amistanee was found in • swooning state with her hand
and arm fifillif held by the oapaceons jaws and folos of
the aerpent. The young lady is seriously ill from
fright, and her arm is much injured. The boo con-
strictor was the prop rty of the Hon. Mr. Fitspetriak.
It had been sant away rem Oxford.

Action) hussumece or THE CHANNEL laLhirDe.
It is recorded aa • scientifie fact gnat Guernsey ,and
Jersey hove suok more than fifteen yards during the
hurt eve hundred years. This is stated to be proved ay
• refrirenee to authentic documente, but we should be •
little meptical of such extra,rdina,y statements. And
yet the increase of smell esrthquoke waves in the month-
went of England tusy readily be eonn.cied cab it s
alba ienco if it be tree. It is for from pleasant to be
groouslly settling down in the Channel at the rate of
rsther more than an inch • year, or nine feet in •
century.

Wtio? WHAT? AND WHIRIPOILI? ON, A 113 W FACTS
TOR THI INVALID. —Have our r eaders ever bead ot
Professor Holloway? Cn-loubtailly they have jest as
they have heard of Humboldt, Arago, Oersard, Sil i•
man, Aguas, and other notable men of lear. ing. Bet
bays they never asked theureelves who and aka he is?
If they have no definite informatme on th.t matter,
we will proceed to enlighten them. The Professor Is •
notice of dud country whieh prodecl Harvey, Hunter,
Allarnet..y. and other iflastatrai of medical science.
So much for the who; and sow for the what. He is to
other physicians what Clay. Webster and Calhoun were
to statesmen, what Washiegton—revered newel - was
to patriots mid generals,— what ShAkeip.ls IVY to
dramatists, and Irving and Chalmera to preachers,—
vie. the greatest of his age asui profession. His
reputation he. penetrated the enerustations of pro.
judtee, aarmounted the barriers of malice, and he
avowedly stands alone, the Medical Gelatine of the
I world. So much for the what. Wherefore do we
speak of him here? If when our fellow countrymen
were dying by thouearpts of yellow fever, at Norfolk and
Portsmouth, we had heard of a lemedy which would
arrest the proves, of the disease end may the foot•tepe
of the spoiler, and we had neglected to commente•te
it, what grout I have been our desert! Truly a •ery
summary pouiehmerit by Lynch law. For if there bean;
duty m re impelatiee than another it is fine, " to
th.• sick in their affliction," mid to use every omenn for
their restoration to health. This is why we speak of
Professor Holloway. This .• our answer to the wherefoie.
Years ego, when the Professor wee a muck younger
me, than he is in present, his attention was directs,' to
the great disproportion bet wain the sores performed by
the physician.. and those which they en.tertook to
perform. He observed that 001 0005 in a score of same
were they successful. It seemed to him, either that
medicine wisanot worthy the name of • amersoe,—that it
was merely • thing of chance, and therefore • positive
injury to mankind, or that the physicians were ignorant
of the true hosting art. Having embarked on the study
at human ph yeiology, and undone...with' the pathology of
diseases, be alighted upon the true lesson of want and
eueome, and made that discovery whioh will immor-
talise his name. To ours a disease, doctors treated it
locally, topitally. Was it the kidneys that were
deranged? Or the liver? Or the stomach? Or the
lungs? Straightway they proceed to r resoribe for
kidneys, liver, lenge, or stomach, not knowing that the
evil was contained in the blood, which fed those organs
with ito life.giving stream, and that to arrest the disease
at its very seat and centre, they should purify that vital
Mad, and leave the neat to nature. This is the secret
of Holloway's astonishing swans in all parts of the
wmtd. He petrifies toe blood and health follow.. Let
any ask person, who has "suffered many thiop of
It") Physicians," and ob &iced no benefit. give heed to
these werda of ours, and try Holloway's Fill—if he is
siefluiring from wounds or or, He will thank as for
o,at, end rejoins that the Professor has arrived in
N1".".`4,7.:rikir1....tbd. opened au extensive aistabli,h.oent in
lamb prouume to rival has nienimoth one
I in Looden.-11. S. .fournia.