Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-03-31
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The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE for the coun-
try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
ALI advertisement appear in both papers, and
are inserted at the usual rates.
From what we hear, we should not be surprls-
ed if the Administration finds itself mistaken IN
MIR. Bouldin. the new member from the Charlotte
district. Time will prove. Those VINO know
him. do not believe that he wears the Jackson
collar.-AIer Gdz.
Neither the Administration nor any other par
tv need make any calculation on James BOuldin.
We have the pleasure O. knowing him, and he is
one of those singularly organized persons who
are characterized as odd and eccentric. When
the New York boys put him in harness at Wash
ington, ten to one if he dom kick up at the first
crack of the whip. He has a strong spice OF
Virginia stiff neckedness. His political eccentrl-
CITY may be inferred from one or facts. he
was a most vehement antagonist of the Tariff,
and mainly on the ground that IT raised the pr1ce
of corn. He was violent against the Proclama-
ton and Force Bill-considered them as sub
yerting the rights of the States and leading di-
rectly to Consolidation and Despotisms but con-
tinued stedfast in his adherence to Jackson, their
author. 1t is plain that such a man cannot be
calculated upon in a party pull. Bouldln is
Southern in all his principles, feelings, preJudl-
ces. and will be dragged by wild horses, before
he votes for the Kinderhooker. He would suit
our taste well, for he is slightly touched with
Notification and is self-willed, but for his unac-
countable, unintelligible, and (holding his OPT
nions) most unreasonable Jacksonism.
The Globe, which shouted Glory" at Boul-
din's election, has caught a Tartar. Gold to sill
yer lin a small Way that he has not been at
Washington three weeks, before his honorable
spirit revolts, and his independent mind takes
disgust at the deeds he is there destined to wit
ness.-Rich. Uhig.
The Steam Machine for clearing out the Ri
yer, was tried on Wednesday at some of the
wharves of the town, and its powerful opera
tons astonished every one present. 1t will most
assuredly effect the purpose for which it has
been obtained, with ease and facility. Gen
tlemen speak of its operations in the highest
terms of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gaz.
We learn. from an unquestionable source, that
large remittances from the Union Bank of Ten
nessee have been received within a few days,
for the redemption of its notes made payable at
the Bank of Maryland, and that these funds
have been forwarded to Philadelphia. 1t is pro-
bable that arrangements will soon be made for
their proper application in Baltimore.
Bait. Amer.
The Scarlet Ferer appears to be committing
great ravages in various parts of the country
A late Pennsylvania paper mentions the case OF
an individual in Cambria county, in that State,
who lost all his children (four in number) by the
scarlet fever, within four days.
There is a long article in the Nantucket lnqul-
rer, addressed to parents, and accompanied with
some editorial remarks, in which numerous facts
and authorities are quoted to prove that a Specl-
fc has been found for the scarlet fever in the
plant called the Atr0pG B~eIadonna, or Deadly
Mightshade. 1t is said that the discovery was
made, accidentally, about forty years ago by
DIR. Hahnemann, a German physician OF emf
nence-that the remedy has been in general use
on the continent of Europe since 1S11-was
adopted in the Imperial Hospital at ST. Peters
burgh,i in 1926, by order of the Emperor of Rus
STA. and in 1929 in the Hospital at Naples by or
der of the King. The writer Of the article says
that it was administered in New York eight
years ago with u~nfailing success, by a disciple
ofDr. Hahnemann, and that family upon fami-
~ will furnish the requisite certificates of its use
and success-but he seems to think that the re
gular bred" physicians are prejudiced against 1t,
and consider it a mere quack remedy.
In the first number of the Baltimore Medical
and Surgical Journal and Reriep, edited by
Professor Geddings of this city, we find the fol-
lowing notice of the efficacy of Belladonna in
Scarlet Fever, copied from a foreign Medical
Journal
Prophylactic virtue of Belladonno, against
ScarIaina.-By HILLENKAMP. During the pre-
'oASAASS OA ok AN'N
dren from one to six years old took belladonna
regularly; twenty or thirty irregularly; and TWEEN
ty-ive or thirty did not take it at all. OF the
first, FIVE contracted the disease; of the second
eight; of the last eleven. DR.. H. employed a so
luton of two grains of the extract of belladonna
in an ounce of canella water, of which one drop
was administered night and morning for every
year of the child's age. Of the children who
died of the epidemic none had taken the BELLA
donna.-HuJeiand's Journal, March, 1881.
The subject appears to be worthy of further
investigation by the intelligent and respectable
physicians of our country, if it were merely to
prevent a false impression of the virtues of the
remedy, from gaining ground; but if it be in re-
atty a specific, either by way of cure or prevenr
tive, or even approaches to it, a voluntary ne
glect of il would be inexcusable. The disease
in question appears to be assuming every year
a more malignant and fatal character, and is
becoming a scourge hardly less dreaded by pa
rents than the cholera intantum.
1t is generally known, but cannot be too often
repeated, that the Belladonna is one of the most
active and deadly poisons, and, therefore, at
tempts to administer it, by persons unskiled in
meiicine, would be little less than criminal
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