, 1842-05-07

the education of an intelligent class
of young women in obstetrical sur
gerry; it is under the superintendent
of a French Professor, aided by {
young Arab. Some of those stu
dents are as black as ebony; DR.
Mott examined several Of them. anc
found them well qualified TO practice
they are educated at the expense O.
the Pacha. and are designed as sub
stitutes Of male practitioners in the
harems Of the monarch.
An institution which would quail.
fly females to take the place of the
other sex in the department Of surge
nv would, ! an sure, find favor in our
own county.
In surgical operations, in our eli
mate, the adhesive inflammation is,
crteris paribus, more favorable for
union, by the first intention in hot
weather than in cold; this is ascribed
to the lesser degree of inflammation
that follows operations and injuries in
the summer time.
The Egyptians recover from wounds
very soon, because their simple mode
of life induces nc predisposition to
Inflammation. The Arabs comply
rigidly with the letter Of their reIi-
gious ordinance which requires fire.
quent ablution of hands and iace-
but they i%ntirely neglect the rest ofthe
body, and thus completely evade the
spirit and intention Of the law-hence
arise the "plagus' and many o5sti-
nate cutaneous affections. The
"plague" is not contagious; DR.. Bull
ard made six hundred autopsies on
subjects that died of this disease; and
DR.. Primer states that he never knew
an instance of plague" among the
students from dissecting such bodies.
Mdldria.-" With the exception
Of the occasional prevalence of yell
low fever, the cities of our own At
lantic seaboard are always more heal
thy in autumn thanth adjacentcoun-
try inland; this principle have I'M
ply proved, at home and abroad"
Petrifaction Of Human Bodies
Signor Ligato, of Florance, possesses
the art OF petrifying all animal sub
stances, in a very short time, by
some chemical process, knowns only
to himself. The firm and internal
texture of every part Of the organi-
Zalion is ~prsseIred Win Minute aceu.
racy, and in 4 state of such stony
hardness that it could be sawed into
slabs and most elegantly polished!
He had a centre table, made of mo-
sale work, with small squares of pet
riied @livers, lungs, &C., handsomely
polished, and SO distinctly exhibiting
the original structure OF the parts,
that DR.. Mott, to his surprise and
pleasure, readily named them--a pull.
monary tubercle here, a hydotid of
the liver there, a calculus of the kid
neg, and there an ossifcation of the
valves of the heart, &c.
This man died about three weeks
after the Doctors visit, and it is
much 10 be regretted that the secret
of his most useful art persisted with
him.
Here is a field for discovery, in
which some of our chemists may i'm
mortalize themselves by recovering
this lost and useful art. By exami.
ming the specimens, and by insti,uting
rigid inquiry among the friends and
of Legation, some clue
be obtained as a guide. He
is supposed to have learned it him.
self in Asia, where he had speat ma
years.
am sorry to feel called upon to
remark that a spirit Of egotism per-
rades DR.. Motifs work, every way
Unworthy of his high professional
equation. ANTHRAX.
When an individuals in Massachu.
;etts wishes to drink, he poes tn n