Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-03
MEDICAL

II oALNANlC hiN0S--Au EnBlsnnfdns AdH1ed OriStles
is making some noise in New York, in relation to
what he says is an English discovery. called TIE Cal
vanic Rings. The Galvanic Rings are simply worn
upon the finger, and arc stated to answer all the
purposes for which the gaIvanic battery and magnetic
machines are used, and in several respects of ar
important nature, they appear even preferable.
The Louisville Democrat denies the claim of Eng
land to the original discovery, and says that these
rings have been used by Mr.. Jacob Waiker of Louis
vile, for ten or fifteen years. 1t copies an advertise
ment of these rings published by Walker in 1912, as
proof.
The rings are used for the cure Of rheumatic COM
plants of the head, ears, face, teeth, neck, in stiffness
Of the neck, in pains which affect one side Of the face,
prosapalgy, tic doluareaux, megrin, toothache and
jawache when caused by cold; and also cold when
first seated, in chronic pains of the chest, asthma, and
all purely neuralgia complaints; in cholic, cramps of
the stomach, &c.
Walker uses the rings upon the ankles, wrists,
arms, sc. according 10 the location of the affection.
They are described in one paper as being made of
small plates of zinc and copper with an acid enclosed
between them, and so formed that the finger furnishes
a connection between the poles. The stream of the
fluids is constant and is said to have a great effect on
all the vital energies.
REMOVAL OF THE LOWER JAw.-The Journal Of
Medicine notices an operation, performed by DR.. Mott,
of New York which may be regarded as one the most
remarkable Of the day. II was the removal of the
entire lower jaw bone of a Mr.. Baker. The opera
ton was extremely complicated, and required a great
deal of cutting. saving, tying of arteries, &c. The
time occupied was one hour and a half, and it is stated
that the patient did not evince the slightest evidence
of pain, either by language, gesture, expression of
countenance, %winking, groaning, or signing.
A New ANIIDoTE.-The U. S. Journal states that
a lady of Washington city recently swallowed by
mistake, a teaspoonful of solution of corrosive subli-
mate. The family becoming alarmed, the lady of the
house proceeded to mix, as she supposed, a teacupful
OF ground ipecacuana, and this the patient swallowed
in her fright, as speedily as she had swallowed the
poison. Judge, however, of the surprise of all, when
they ascertained that the article was Scotch snuff.
The accidents however offset each other for the lady,
after enduring a siege equal to that endured by the
ancient city of Troy, came forth from Ter couch
entirely well and, as she expressed it very much
better for the Scotch emetic."
BLEEDING TO DEATH. = We lately saw it stated
that a person bled to death in ~forty-fve minutes after
having had a tooth extracted. To prevent the rccur-
renee of such an event, a gentleman Of Albany advises
to burn a piece of cork to crisp and introduce it in the
cavity from which the tooth has been removed. He
says he never knew it to fail. 1t is simple enough.
A bean, which had lodged in the windpipe of a
child of the Rev. Hezekiah Crout, at Westminster,
IN Maryland, was extracted twenty-fOur hours after
the occurrence by DR.. Payne, in the following manner:
A cut made lengthwise in front Of the neck, through
the skin, fat, &C., down to the windpipe, and a slight
cut into the ~wind-pipe three-fourths of an inch long,
a short space above the top of the breast bone. The
bean had swollen AMI was more than half an inch
long, and lodged in the lower end of the wind-pipe.
An attempt to remove it by passing an instrument into
the wind-pipe through the cut was made, but unsuc-
c~eSsfully. The boy was then held up by the feet and
shaken, whilst the cut in the w~ind-pipe was held open
by a hook in a few seconds the bean appeared at the
opening and was taken out with an instrument.
LIVE ToAD IN A CHrLD's STOMACH The Westfeld
(MaSs) News Letter gives an account Of a little girl,
about ? years old, an only child of John Bronson, of
Russell, vomiting a living toad. 1t measured from
the mouth to the end of the body % inches-the body
and lower extremities 5 inches-and the circumfer-
ence of the body 81. 1t lived about II hours after
its election from the stomach of the little child. The
girl for sometime past has been unwell, and complain
ing of distress in the stomach, and has had violent
fits of coughing. The occurrence thus mentioned,
was on the 10Th ult., since which the child is better.
HEADAcHE.-Food taken into the stomach of a per-
son of weak digestion Immediately before retiring to
90 vs. ~ ~ hS VII NOh P0Ae VI ~ hAShh
very little altered, thus acting as an irritant for so
many hours on an organ already too sensitive. Can
we wonder that the patient should awake in the
morning with the headache! But it frequently hap
pens that the change that the food has undergone dur
ing sleep is not merely imperfect in kind, but un-
wholesome likewise in its nature, and the crudity
generated by the morbid process usually abounds with
acidity.
DRESSING WOUNDS AND ULCERS. = DR.. Langier's
method consists in applying on the surface of the
wound or ulcer, a solution of gum arabic, and on it
a bit of gold beater's skin, thus dressed, a wound All
inch IN diameter was reduced in the space of eight
days to one-thlrd or one sixth of an inch in extent.
Cicatrization took place so rapidly that the granula-
lions, covered with a thick ~epidermis, were as hume
rous and visible as before, but could be touched with
out causing pain. A wound produced by amputation
of the breast highly infamed, about four and a half
inches in length and one and a half in breadth, under
this treatment healed rapidly and prudent secretion
did not take place. He proposes applying this method
to a wound left by an amputation of the thigh.-Medi-
cal Times.
To NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.