The Arkansas banner., 1845-10-15

TIE SOLVE LEAF''-AGAIN.--On the first page of our paper, for the last two weeks, our readers have been presented with an ar tiele under this head, from the " Washington Telegraph.o We, also, have briefly invited attention to it; and a further notice was promised--it was witten-and but for an ac- cident would have been published. Unavoid- able delay, aflording time for more mature de- liberation, has not only changed our purpose of giving publicity to our views; but has wrought change--a reversal-of those views. Of course, then, no further publea- ton, on the subject, will be made by us.
 When we first read that article-particu- larly when we converse with it's author and more especially still, when we heard that gentleman, in his lectures on the subject, more clearly express his sentiments, and fully develope his purposes, we were, and are yet, fayorably impressed with the jnstness of those sentiments, and yielded our assent to the feasibility of those purposes, We were not, then, alone. Whether we be so now, in this withdrawal of our assent, we donot know.
 We wish 1t to be distigetly understood, on taking leave of this subject, that the change of our views extends only 10 the feasibility of the purposes upon the practical accom- plishment of which 1t was proposed 10 enter, and not, al all, to our estimation of the intel ligence, the honest earnesness and the pous zeal of their author. That from a consci- enuous sense of duty, as d christian minister and patriotic citizen, he has assiduously and prayerlully devoted the powers of his acute mind to the study of the subject, and now pro- poses 10 enter upon the practical application of his conclusions, for the good of society, and the perpetuity of our institutions, we most sincerely believe. It was this belief, taking very ready and powerful hold even of our feelings, which led us to mistake, what we now find to be, our wishes for the mature convictions of our judgment.
 With the free acknowledgm that our views, whether favorable or unEaporable to the purposes in question, cannot materially affect their real merit or practical results, we feel bound, in duty to our readers and ourself, to say so much, in explanation, as well of what we have as what we have not done.
 SICKNESS IN BRADLEY COUNTY.
 A medical friend in this county, writing to Us under recent date, speaks of very remarkable, and troublesome disease, then and for some time past, prevalent in DOT ton of the circuit of his practice.
 He says that, in the beginning, this dis ease is apparently of the type of the ordina- " intermittent fever of the country-except, that the tongue is almost black After few days, "some soreness, with pctcchiG, occurs about the neck, face, and nose.o Many of the first cases, it seems, were easily managed But they were followed by others, which he characteristics as-s'still intermittent, yetsome- what malignant some with and some with out blaekness of the tongue" Again, he says: "ln several cases, as soon as the fe- brile action has begun to subside, the jows of the patient begin to swel-frst, perhaps, ill the region of the parotid gland, and ex- tending thence over the face, closing the eye, involving nearly the whole scalp-and not unlrequently descending to the chest. The swelling usually nvades one side more vio- lenily at first; and after partially subsiding there, sets in upon the other. have met with but one that could not be reduced.- This went on to suppuration; and opened i it behind the ear, at the most prominent part of tumor as large as your fist The case 1 Is still under treatment; and the swelling is eqally large on the other side of the jaw tho suppuration has not yet taken place. A very thick pus is discharging from the car 1 iiSeY, on the side that has been opened )
 Our friend enquiries if this can be '.the epidemic Erysipelas." Not being accurate 1 ly informed as to what diseases are preva- lent through the country, We are unable to answer his inquiry with precision. But, as we'll as we can form an opinion from his very lucid, yet limited description of this particular affection, we would call it nla- hgaam typc of he conmOn intermittent fe- ger, 'rith Efysipelas, as is controlling, and  most dangerous symptom.
 The course of treatment our friend has pursued-''one or two mercurial catharics, with liberal use of tonicsn-we consider emmently judieious. What particular ionic he exhibited, we are not informed; but we presume il was Qniaiae And, in this con. neetion, we would remark that although WIG here speak of Quinine as toaic-that being it's therapeutical classifcaton-we are not of those who consider it possessed of ionic i properties, in the usual acceptation of the term. We would rather term it direct Se- dative-orin in language that the unprotession- al reader may more readily understand, we regard il as a remedy that has the effect of