The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

SCIENCE AND ART.

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OF CHLOROFORM
Several cases in which the administration of chloro-
form has proved fatal having been published, a medical
correspondent of the Morning Post states that the
local application of the vapour of chloroform to the
paining part will, in a few minutes, give complete relief,
without in the slightest degree affecting the general
sensibility. Not only may tooth-ache be thus in a few
minutes removed, but in the most painful affections,
such as neuralgia, tetanus, cancerous, and similar com-
plaints, complete relief has been obtained after all the
usual remedies had failed. It is now no longer neces-
sary to endanger the patient's life for the purpose of
obtaining relief in many of those cases in which chloro-
form is so beneficial, the local application of the vapour
beinc, all that is required. Dr. Hardy, of Dublin, has
lately invented an ingenious little apparatus for this
purpose, which can be used without danger by patients
themselves.

SILK AND PAPER FROM THE MULBERRY TREE.
—The present researches, both in England and on
the continent, for new materials proper for the manu-
facture of paper, in the hope of obtaining a cheap
substitute for linen and cotton rags, which have be-
come insufficient to meet the immensely increased
requirements of paper-makers, have induced Signor
Lotteri to turn his attention to this subject, and the
result of his endeavours and experiments is, that the
bark of the common mulberry tree (Morns Alba et
Nigra), hitherto known and used, in its primitive
state, only as a combustible, has been found capable
of producing a material of a silky substance valuable
not only for the reel and loom, but likewise in a still
higher degree for the manufacture of paper of the
finest description, and moreover (a most important
consideration), that it can be prepared for both these
purposes by the very simple and economical process
of maceration. Thus, we are informed, the biennial
pruning of the thirty-six millions of mulberry-trees,
which, according to the most accurate statistics, it is
calculated are cultivated in Europe and its colonies
for the purpose of rearing the silkworm, may be made
to yield to commerce, over and above the 200,000,000
of pounds of fuel, for which purpose solely it is used,
an immense supply of raw material for paper-making ;
and at a moment when the scarcity of rags, or rather
the extraordinary increase of the deman for paper,
has rendered it absolutely necessary that a suc-
cedaneum should be found, the substance now under
consideration may be classed with the most adapted
for the purpose in question.—We are informed that
with the view of bringing the subject to the notice of
those it most nearly interests, the secretary of the
Malta Society of Arts has forwarded to the Society
for the Encouragement of Arts in London a specimen
of the result of Signor Lotteri's labours in a series of
stages—from the twig of the mulberry-tree to the
silky material prepared for the spinner or the paper-
maker, and we earnestly hope that we may yet have
it in our power not only to report its having been
favourably received in England, but to inform our
readers that Signor Lotteri has met with an honour-
able acknowledgment of the merit due to his exertions
for the advancement, we may truly say, of European
industry.—Malta Mail, Oct. 16.
A NEW FUEL..." FraxAmENTum."—The following
account of the experimental trial of a new kind of