The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-26 00:00:00

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1826.

PRICE 7I).

AFFLICTING CASE OF SUICIDE.

Yesterday the family of WiMara AlmanlE, residing at No.
Wethroat, were thrown into the deepest anguith, in consequen
of Mr. Alinanle having fallen by his own hand. Tuesday night
he retired to his bed at the usual hour, apparently in good health,
and yesterday n►orning, about 8 o'clock, the servant went up lo
his chamber door to call hi►n, but receiving no answer, knockrd
again, thinking that her master had fallen into a dote( but recei-
ving no answer to the second knock, she mentioned it to Neater
Almanli, and both he and his sister proceeded to the bed-chamber,
when, shocking to relate, the children discovered their unhappy
parent hanging by the ntekkerchief to the bed-post, and quite
dead. Surgical
,aid was instantly sent for, but the vital spat k
had fled.
THE INQUERS .

Yesterday evening, the Inquest on ilk. Alinatili was held,
when the following witnesses were examined :
Mr. G. W. Almanlii, inn to the deceased—On Timothy morn-
ing last, about eight o'clock, he vrat in bed, when he heard his
sister scream out, he instantly got up, and on entering hit father's
hed-room, he was horror struck at discovering his unhappy parent
stispatuled from the bed-past by a silk handkerchief 7,, his *tato.
was writ ktottrint; to hold him up. Witness instantly 00114
handkerchief, ad, leaving the deceased on the besl, rushes!. met Anpj
fetched Mr. Edgingtan, $ Medical gentleman, who resorted to
every means to restore animatiotto brit in vain.
Coamtra—Pray, when did you last see your father alive?
Witness—On Sunday last.
Coßoska—How did he then appear in his mind?
Witness--Very low spirited.
Juror—Art you aware of any thing that preyed upon the de-
ceased's mind to cause him to commit this dreadful act ?

Witness—l ant not.
A medical gentleman, named Burt, said, that Ile attended the
doomed lately, in consequence of a nervous attack ; upon which
occasion the deceasedge intellects were alfeeted.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Insanity." The deceased was
forty-eight years of age, and bee left a wife and fantily.

CIRCULATION of the BLOOD-POISONED

WOUNDS.

Much new light seems to have been recently thrown upon the
subject of our title, by experiments moat ingenioosly contrived,
and ably conducted, by D. Barry, M.D. surgeon to the limes, as,.
His main conclusions are, that, during inspiration, the blood in
the veins is moved inwards to the heart, and that thia move
ment or circulation' is occasioned by the pressure of the at-
mosphere. It was found, on experiment, that any liquid, thrown
into a vein, in the thorax, was propelled towards the heart during
inspiration, and that the motion was arrested doting respiration.
An inference from this was, that specific poisons—ouch as that of
the viper, or that communicated by the bite of a mad dog, wee
thrown into the system, through the open end of the veins, by at-
mospheric pressure; and that, if speedily applied, the poison
might be extracted, by means of powerful cupping-glasses. Nu-
merous and decisive experiments were in consequence triads with
respect to the poison of the viper. To some rabbits and other
animals bitten by the viper, the cupping-glass was applied, while
other bitten animals were left to nature ; and the result uniformly
was, that in the one case all serious consequences were prevented,
while, in the others, the disease and suffering that followed Wee
extreme. Ay other numerous experiments, in which the most
deadly poisons had been introduced nnder the skin of animals, it
was ascertained that the cupping-glass arrested the prove', of
what is called absorption. When a part has been bitten, or
wounded by soy thing suspected of being poisoned, or in a state
to communicate poisonous matter, the precautionary measures re-
commended, until the cupping-glass can be applied, are sitnple
cleansing of the part by the application of cold water, without any
friction that may render the skin more pervious or tender, the.
het:Alga, not tee tight, betwixt the wctttnd and the
heart, and protection of the part from contact with the
air. In using the glass he is anxious to guard against scan-
Eying beyond the parts which it is to cover; then after using
the glass for perhaps an hour, but not till thin, if the ghee
can be applied within any reasonable time, he recomMends
sion, or the removal of the parts by the knife; then a reapplica-
tion of the cupping-glass; and lastly cauterisation or burning,
that the air may be excluded by sealing herMetically. If this
course be followed, then all will have been done that can be done
' to *met the progress of the poison in the first place, and to extract
it in the second. The Editor of the Meilico-chiturgical Journal
—a work of great merit, from which we have obtained our in
formation—is inclined to think that poison may be thus extracted
—that it generally will be--if the poison get into the system
through the blood-vetoes and lymphatics only, and that the nerves
have nothing to do with its progress, as it would appear they have not.
At the same time, as different poisons may have, and doh's'', different
modes of action, he puts his medical brethren on their guard against
resting secure until they have tested the doctrine by ex-
perience respecting all sorts of poison. It may be here observed,
however, that the absorption of the poison of small-pox,
plague, he., by the lungs, forms no exception to his doctrine, but,
on the contrary, is confirmatory of it, since the veins of the lungs
are the most numerous, its communication with the central cavity
of the thorax, the shortest and most direct—the coast of thee.
veins tieing also the most previous, while their content, are pro-
pelled forward by the whole pressure of the air rushing down the
trachea during inspiration. This strews, as Dr. Barry remarks,
that whatever poison is capable of being suspended by, or dissolved
in the air as a menstruum, must pass rapidly into the systems of
those who inspire such infected air. This proviso also that there
is contact with poison where it is not ,suspected ; and as there is
reason to apprehend that the human body, while labouring under
many diseases, generates and exhales poisonous matter, we
perceive here the importance of cleanliness, and the admission
of free air to the chambers of the sick, both for curative purpose*,
in preventing the accumulation of morbid effluvia, and for protect-
ing those attending or visiting them, from infection. These dis-
coveries of Dr. Barry, it is also curious to remark, are restoring a
practice which prevailed in the time of Celeus, and among the an-
ciente in the form of sucking wounds ; hut which, from not having
been shown to depend on scientific principles--as may be conjec-
tured—was suffered to fall into disuse.—Scotsnian.

PRoov or THE MARCH OD INTELLIWT.—The
wife of a farmer, upon paying a visit to the governess
of her daughters, was anxious to hear the report of
their progess in music. The 'governess candidly in-
formed her that the instructions bestowed upon one of
her pupils were entirely useless, and urged the good
dame from a continuance in that branch of education,
as her daughter had no capacity for it. This friendly
advice, however, failed in its intended effect, far the
sagacious advocate for a good keddication bridling
herself up, and placing her arms a-kimho, replied with
great vehemence—" Od Zimmermains! madam,
don't tell me about capacity, when I doesn't spare
of the „pen" !......sod," continued she, with a consequential
Vast-office in this
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A MonitST SHlFT.—NOtWitintillding every pre-
caution that could he devised, drunkenness continued
to prevail among the troops in one of the forts in In.
dig ; when it was at length discovered that the soldiers'
wivescoat iwnearerrairetkte
,hanl(llsl:it of steepingherlwriil giilg themteir flannel
outintopeyttitsi;
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