The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-14 00:00:00

CASE OF TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD.

We extract the following from Mr. Banner's Clinical Reports,
which appeared in the last number of the London Medical and
Surgical Journal; after giving the particulars of the case, which
was one of hemorrhage, in a lady of delicate constitution, Mi.
Banner goes on to state, that on the 6th of May last, between
the hours of nine and one, the patient appeared in a dying state,
she was quite unconscious, the pulse could only occasionally bo
felt, the eye was half closed and glassy, the breathing scarcely
perceptible, she had taken half a pint of brandy and a consider-
able quantity of red wine without producing any effect on the
system. As a last means Mr. Bickersteth proposed the opera-
tion of transfusion, which was agreed to, and immediately com-
menced as follows :
" Blundell's apparatus was used ; I made an incision at the
bend of the right arm, and laid bare the vein for three-quarters
of an inch; the apparatus was immersed in warm water, and
placed in a convenient position; a ligature was now applied
round the husband's arm; I made a small opening into the pa-
tient's vein, and introduced the small loose pipe, which was hell
there by au assistant; a large orifice was made in the husband's
vein, from which the blood issued freely into the receiver of the
instrument; the pump was now exhausted of its atmospheric air,
and the elastic tube was attached to the pipe already in the
patient's vein. Mr. Bickersteth attended to the pipe and arm,
Dr. Jeffreys to the constitutional symptoms, whilst I pumped
slowly about five syringefuls of blood into the system, when,
from the increased oppression in breathing, it was thought pro-
per to rest awhile. After waiting a few minutes the lungs ap-
peared somewhat relieved, and two syringefuls of blood was in-
troduced, when the breathing became again laborious, the pulse
now became perceptible at the wrist, We consequently felt jus-
tified in not persevering with the injection. For a short time
after the operation the pulse could be felt, when, for nearly two
hours, the patient remained in a very doubtful state, the breath-
ing and pulse scarcely perceptible, time body cold and clammy ;
at three o'clock, p.m., a decided improvement took place, the
breathing was more natural, the pulse could be felt stronger,
and she was enabled to take weak brandy and water. From this
time the patient gradually recovered, and is now well. The
rallying efl'ects from the operation of transfusion are not so im-
mediate as I had been led to suppose; if it had nut been for the
oppression in breathing which was produced, I should have
considered the immediate effects on the system trifling. The
pump will contain about two ounces, the quantity of blood that
was introduced- no doubt kept up vitality, and enabled the sys-
tem to rally. The more I reflect on this operation, the more I
feel confident ofits usefulness as a means of saving life, in cases
of extreme danger from the effects of hemorrhage."—Landon
Medical and Surgical Journal.--[This is the second instance in
which blood has been transfused into the system in this town
and the first in which it has proved successful.]

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
IMPROMPTU,

On hearing that Mr. Benetes motion to disfranchise the Licerpool
Burgesses was postponed on Tuesday last.
" We'll disfranchile the Burgesses—sure as a gun,"
Said the Whigs in the heyday of power;
" They'll not do it," says Sam; " Your reason," quoth Tam ;
" Why, they've SAID IT !! what would you have more V.
• Alluding, we suppose, to the Whiga never performing their
praise.

HortEsTr.—Sunday morning week, a girl from West Arthur-
lie found a pound note on her way to church, at Paisley, and
honestly delivered it over to her pastor, the Bev. Mr. Bremner,
of the catholic chapel. Mr. Bremner announced it front his
pulpit; and, on Friday last, a poor man from one of the villages
in the south called and joyfully received his pound, without a
farthing of expences.—G/awow Courier.
EuitorEAN Bre inGEs.—The oldest bridge extant is that over
the Gard at Nismes, which was built nineteen years before
Christ; the architect is unknown. Its curve is a semicircle,
the height of its key stone 4 feet 9 inches, the diameter of the
circle of curvature at the vortex 80 feet, the span 80 ft et, and
the height 40. The boldest arch in the world is at Nisines, also
in the church of the Jesuits. It was built by Cubisa Its curve
is the segment of a circle, and although its chord is only 28 feet
3 inches, the diameter of the circle of curvature is 364 feet!
The circle of curvature of the New Loudon Bridge, (the main
arch,) is 321 feet, while that of the very celebrated bridge of the
Holy Trinity, at Florence, is only 21 feet more. Westminster
Bridge is remarkable for the specific height of its key same.—
The widest arches are those of Vielle Brionde, over the river
Allier, of which the span is 18.3 feet, and that of Ulm, over the
Danube, 181; they are both, in curve, segments of circles • the
former was built by Greiner and Estone, in 1443, and the latter
by Wiebiking.

BARONY OF RUTHRRFORD.—John Rutherford, of the parish
of SL George, Hanover-square, Esq., has presented a petitiod
to the King, claiming the Barony of Rutherford. It was re-
ferred to the Law Otheers of the Crown, and, pursuant to their
advice, directed to be transmitted to the House of Lords. It
was preferred on Thursday, and their Lordships have referred
it to a Committee of Privi►eges.

RIGHT OF SOLDIERS TO PASS OVER BRIDGES FREE OF
TOLL.—The collector of the tolls at Kew-bridge was summoned
before Mr. Gregorie, at Queen-square, for demanding and tak-
ing toll from two foot soldiers, who were in regimentals and on
duty, and had occasion to pass over the bridge. In support of
the information, it was contended that, according to an act
passed in April last, the collector of toles subjected himself to a
penalty of five pounds for demanding and taking toll from sol-
diers on duty. 111 r. Robinson, the proprietor of the tolls, said
that ever since the bridge had been nuid-, toll had been taken,
in accordance with the orders from the War-office and that
that this was the first case of the kind in which he had ever been
considered to have acted ibegally. lie knew nothing of the
law as it now stood, but had always been guided by the Secre-
taries at War, whose regtOat.,ins, as regarded the taking Vol
front soldiers, were posted .n the toll-house. Mr. Gregorie ob-
served, that no orders from the War-office could overturn an
Act of Parliament, and as an offence had been connnitted,
conviction must necessarily follow, but he would mitigate din
line to one half, viz., 10s. and costs.
THE CRUSHING OF A DEPRECIATING TIII:ORT.—" Well, my
good girl," said Sir David. Barry, on Thursday, in his free
f,,,thy way, to one of the winders in Mr. Clark's mill, "did any
one ever say to you that your right shouider was higher than
your left?" On few points is a young maiden more sensitive
than on that of personal symmetry, and it is with exceeding
reluctance that any confession of defect on this point is ever
made. Truth prevailed, however, and she blushingly confessed
that .such a remark had been made to her by some of her ac-
quaintances. It so happened that the girl next examined had
to plead guilty to a. simi,ai defect. Sir David began iuunem-
ately to theorise on the subject, conceiving, that there must be
something in the thread-winding process that had a tendency to
elevate the right shoulder at the expense of its neighbour. llacl
a third instance occurred, the conclusion would have rested oa
a base sufficiently ample,' and it would have gone forth to the
world, to the blighting of their matrimonial prospects, that
thread-winders were a lop-sided race. By great good fortune,
however, the left shoulder of the third girl was sufficiently ele-
vated above the right to make. full amends for the other mt..
The equilibrium was thus happily restored, the embryo theory
was crushed in the bud, and the clever, handsome, thread-
winders of Paisley have been restored to their full chances of
hymeneal co-partnery.—Paistcy Advertirer.

A TIZAP PAULIAMENTAIIY.—Feargus O'Connor came into
the House one morning lately with a bright green cravat round
his neck, a waistcoat of many and brilliant colors, which was
displayed to the very aim-holes, a quid watch-chain all abroad,
and a pair of double-bleached Russia duck trowsers. He hada
speech to make, and was dressed in this conspicuous fashion
that he might " catch the Speaker's eyes." He had seen fellows
in dusky black and brown stand up tell times a night,
stretch out their right hands, and then sit doss a again, each time
" invisible•or dimly seen;":thdrefore, he assumed this glittering
array, and no sooner did he dart into file

posts' Corntr.

THE NVIDOW.

The trees! the' are the very same 'neath which in childish play
I sate, and like a linnet sang, when sultry was the day.
The flowers! they are like the very flowers I cultured when a child;
There's the very root of primroses I brought from the hedgerow wild.
The hall—it is my father's hall—the shelter of my youth,
When Hope was whispering in my ear sweet dreams, that seem'd like
truth.
Alas'. that e'er I left my home, breaking our household chain ;
And alas, alas! that I should come, thus saddened back again ;
I left that home a blooming bride, white roses in my hair,
My lover smiling by my side, my parents weeping there ;
The slow consent we wrung from them—years that proved our faith,
Had strengthened that beloved bond, that only broke with death.
I came again, a mourning coif shadoiving my hair and brow,
And sable weeds around me wrapt, for the bridal veil of snow ;
In my arms, a helpless orphan child—in my heart, a feverish pain,
Yes !—a lonely widow I am come, to my father's house again !
The sunny home—the blessed home ! a cloud is on it now,
It bath lost its happy smiles for me, and all its mirthful glow;
As my younger sisters fair and gay sit round the hearth at night,
My mother bids them take good heed of eyes of loving light ;
Bids them beware no lover's words, however sweet they be,
Shall win them to a wedded life of lowly poverty ;
And though to me she does not speak, I feel it and my brain
Grows dizzy when I think, I'm in my father's house again !
I used to be a worshipped bride—the mistress of a home ;
Though small and poor, I was a star that lighted all its gloom ;
My words were heeded, and I ruled my household at my will,
And now within my father's house my vacant place I fill.
Guests come and go—my sisters sing—my mother loves that tone,
But I am a neglected thing—forgotten and alone !
My child would he a playful child, but he grows subdued and meek,
Tfiey rule him, check him, bid him peace, his mother may not speak !
But were it not for that poor child, and for his future weal,
Away from these chilled hearts and home, the lonely one would
steal ;
I'd rather wander o'er the world, or Illy me down and die,
Than read my mother's cold reproof, in her clouded brow and eye ;
Than bear the many cutting words with which they strive to dim
The memory of the buried one ! oh, would I were with him !
And may I not defend thee, love ? pray heaven to ease my pain.
That I may leave this cruel world, and join thee once again !
The Coronal.—By M. A. Browne.