The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-08 00:00:00

TIM SCIENCE OF ORTHOPRAXY.

A correspondent of the Standard, advocating the
science of orthopraxy, states that a poor Scotch
woman afflicted with o•angrene in both bands and feet
was deprived of them by amputation. Mr. Heather
Bigg, a metropolitan practitioner, hearing of her
case, proposed to replace the lost members artificially.
The patient was sent from Dundee to London,
where she was supplied with the new
members, and in three clays was enabled to
walk with the aid of a friend's arm, to use a knife

and fork, to write a legible hand, to knit, thread a
needle, and even to take up a pin. "So painful,"
adds the writer, "is the sight of a mutilated mem-
ber, that the restoration of the lost extremities, even
in appearance, would be no small achievement and
boon, but to enable a person, who was in a state of
utter helplessness, to walk and employ her time use-
fully, is well-nigh miraculOus. I perceive this is con-
sidered by the medical and surgical world to be the
most triumphant mastery over superhuman diffi-
culties ever known, and thus it must strike every un-
professional mind."

One threatening letter has been traced to its ap-
parent source—viz., the note received by Mr. Scott, farmer,
near Drowara, and threatening him with certain peculiar
" pains and penalties" if he did not evict an under-tenant.
Suspicion fell upon a man named Charles Burns ; he was got
to write a letter in presence of witnesses, and the hand-
writing cf this experimental epistle and the threatening
letter was so very similar, that Burns was arrested. The
potty sessions magistrates, after hearing the evidence,
sent the prisoner for trial to the Newry quarter sessions.

An explosion, accompanied by a terrible confla-
gration, occurred yesterday, at the chemical works of
Messrs. Derneuth, on the Birmingham-road, Oldbury, where
a sad accith nt occurred nine mouths ago, by which
several men lost their live... A pipe burst which con-
nects a boiler and a still in the lower part of the works,
whore the stills are kept. The tar caught fire, and the
flames rose to a height of 150 feet. The quantity of tar
consumed must kayo been enormous. No one was seriously
injured.

The Irish Lawyers are taking much interest in a
cause which is to come on to-morrow in Dublin, before a
court which has not sat for 41 years. The Lord Chan-
cellor, the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron
will sit as visitors in open court, in the College-hall, to
try an issue on the part of Dr. M'Swiney, Professor of
Medical Jurisprudence in the Catholic University, against
the College of Physicians, for excluding him from the
Fellowship of the College. Dr. M'Swinoy's involves three
other cases.

Yesterday morning an accident of a very shocking
character occu red in Newgate-street, Newcastle. About
eleven o'clock a baker's horse and cart was left by the driver
standing alone in the street. The horse suddenly bolted
down the footpath at a furious rate. There was a largo
number of foot passengers walking along at the time, and
before they knew what was coming the horse came tearing
along, knocking several of them down who could not get out
of the way in time. Altogether five children, who were
looking into the windows at the time of the accident, wore
knocked down and seriously injured, besides several grown-
up people, who more or less sustained injuries. At first it
was thought two of the children wore dead, but on examine.
tion it was found that they were suffering from compressE n
of the. brain, and under the care of Dr. Murray they at length
rallied, and are now out of clanger.