The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-03-21

tain that lO,0UU men, with 100 dogs, will
accomplish more than 10000 without
them. A much smaller force will be suffi.
cient to end the war, and countless mil
lions will be saved to the country, ifa sufii
cient number of dogs can be procured.
The indian thus put hors du combat, was
wretchedly frightened, and coming to his
usual equanimity, offered with the honesty
Of his tribe, to conduct the "gallant dogs
to where party oflive more red skins were
encamped. d.-St. Augustine News, 9th inst
Most Extraordinary Case.-For some
time past the curiosity Of our citizens has
been kept in the qui rire concerning an
extraordinary physical phenomenon, and
of which. AS yet, no satisfactory explaua-
ton has been attempted. The learned
and unlearned-medical and non-medical
the accp.ical and the credulous, have
been all equally puzzled by the SPIDER
CASE, as it must par excellence be called.
and by which so%briquet il still stands ac-
knowledged. The rumours, which are
diversified and in many Instances doubtless
exaggerated, are as far as VIC can trace,
derisable at first hand from the Medical
gentlemen who have seen the case, and
which finally being communicated from
one to another, have assumed such chnr.
acter and conferred such importance on
the subject, as forbids our further silence.
We entirely disclam any desire 10 intrude
upon the privacy Of feeling and the NOR
bio sensibility necessarily attendant upon
an afliction of the kind, nor would we
give it this channcl, were it not common
topic. We presume in time the proper
medical authority will embody the entire
and Of course more perfect history Of this
mystery. These, however,
are the principal points of its history, ga
thered by enquiry from The most authentic
atswhich we could arrive.
The patient while on visit-to friend
in the country, felt, while in bed, an OBJ
jcct of some kind fall upon the upper part
Of the check bone just below the left eye
She brushed it away, and after restless
night, awoke in the morning suffering its
in the form Of acute pain,
Turing which time she removed from, the
Eye several fragments Of the lcgs Of
:picer.
Returning to :his city few days after.
wards, upon complaining to her mother
# q similar sensation, an examination was
made, when perfectly formed dead spi.
Ter, Of small size, was removed. A ply
iician being called, all proper invesli ga
ion was made, in order. if possible, to
discover the seat or indus nf the animals,
,ut this proved fruilless. No enquiry has
'et been able 10 detect their seat Of en-
lire, and yet they have continued 10 be
emoved from each eye alternately, some
lines from one alone, sometimes from
10Th, for a space Of six weeks, TO an
on an average Of from TO 8 every
ther day. Portions Of what is supposed |
o be the ovum, have been also dischar.
ed. Each exit Of either animal or web,
5 preceded by acute pain in some portion
f the organ, and attention being thus
allied, the objec, is easily removed by the
ttendant.
The eyes assume at times much infanl-
natory irritation and swelling of the lids.
nth an injected condition of the ball,
nd copious suffusion Of tears.
BY some, the spiders arc supposed to
e of different species, they are, certain.
y, as far as we can learn at different sta
es of maturity:
The facts We now give have been sub
litted to the medical gentleman who has
cen the case, in order to obtain his Per-
,ission to lay them before the public, as
'ell as to avoid any errors, as we are
learly of opinion that it is case Of too
igh interest to be commented upon BY
ny other than the professional attendant,
nd certainly not until some satisfactory
stional can be Gcduced from his closest
nd most vigilant circumspection.
We are Informed by that gentleman that
,e report we make is in the main correct,
'anting such particulari,ies Of detail as
"a of course cannot be presumed to know
r understand.
Charleston Patriot.
The following curious proceedings are
,cnrded in tho " Amprican.-