Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-08-06

root which had been boiled being thrown
into the closet thickly invested by the ene-
my, the place was quilted entirely in few
days, great numbers being left dead upon
the field.
The smell of the Molasses attracts the
Conference.-The is tempted and eats it
swells incontinently as one pulled up with
a new discovery, and perishes almost inn
mediately.-B0st. GGz.
Force of Imagia0tiOn.-The following
case lately occurred, under the care of nj.
Maury, at the hospital of St. Louis "A
young man from the country, laborer,
imagined he had swallowed a young snake
in glass OF water. sit is FIVE years."
said he, "since the accident occurred /;
since which time tho animal has not ceased
to grow. 1t has now attained an enor-
nous size, and produces great inconven-
fence: constantly in motion, it traverses
the belly, mounts into the chest, and some-
times rises up to the leftseye, when / have
distinct perception Of its size and color
Sometimes its movements are SO violent
and painful, that am obliged to constrain
them by seizing and squeezing it through
the particles of the abdomen" The pa
tent described a variety of other circum-
stances connected with his internal enemy,
and appealed TO the bystanders whether
they did not hear i kissing: yet, in every
other respect he was perfectly rationale
M. Maury, aware that no reasoning would
avail, affected to agree with him. The pa
tent himself expressed his conviction that
nothing but an operation could save him.
II was performed in the following manner !;
In order to render,he illusion more COM
plete, large plat was made in the integ-
uments of the abdomcn-the base of which
was traversed with a bitoury, and live adj
der introduced into the wound in the form
OF seton, so as to be under the skim
One of the wounds being covered with the
hand, the patient was requested to assist by
seising the head Of the " SERPENT" and
unite his efforts TO those of the operator in
extracting it. No idea can be formed of
the joy Of the patient, without having wit
messed it. Next day he declared he was
prodigiously shrunk, in consequence of the
extraction of the horrid creature all the
torments he had suffered for five years
were removed the cure was complete in
few days, and what is more remarkable,
it has continued permanent. One cir
cumstance alone for moment rendered it
doubtful; the patient was afraid that the
serpent might have left some eggs, but his
confidence was completely restored on be-
ing assured that it was male serpent.
Slender Waists.-The Scotsman has
devoted four columns to an essay "On the
Compression of the Waist in females by
the use ofcorsetts ;" with two drawings
one exhibiting the waist Of the Mcclellan
Venus, who did not wear stays, the other
the waist Of a modern belle, after long
course Of corset training. "a single
glance" says the author, twill better
show than many pages of argument what
havoc tight lacing must produce in the
delicate and complicated mechanism lodg-
I'd within the chest" Another effect Of
tight corsetts, he further observes, is that
those who have been long SO closely laced,
become at last unable to hold themselves
erect, or move with comfort without them,
but as is very justly said, fall together, in
consequence Of the natural form and posi-
ton of the ribs being altered. The mus
cles of the back are weakened and Grip
pied, and cannot maintain themselves in
their natural position for any length of
time. The spine, too, no longer accus-
toned to bear the destined weight of the
body, bends and sinks down. Where tight
lacing is practised, young women from
fifteen to twenty years ofage are found so
dependent upon their corsets, that they
faint whenever they lay them aside, and
therefore are obliged to have themselves
laced before going to sleep. For as soon
as the thorax and abdomen nre relaxed, by
being deprived Of their usual support, the
blood rushing downwards. in consequence
of the diminished resistance to its motion,
empties the vessels of the head, and thus
occasions fainting." "Frem 100 to
about ITO, it was the fashion in Berlin,
and other parts of Germany, and also 10
Holland few years ago, to apply corsetts
to children. This practice fell into disuse
in consequence of its being observed that
children who did not wear corsetts grew
up straight, while those who, were treated
with this extraordinary care got by it a
high shoulder or bunch. Many families
might be named, in which parental fond
ness selected the handsomest of several
bows to put in corsetts, and the result was,