New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-30

Oriental Annals and spectacle. Of the Monte Cristo
kind. Thee ere for the most part fiction, though 20
lie your Kiimudgsr, if be happens TO bel gunah
wal sh, Is apt q; times to indulge in splendid fancies,
10 make you grand salaam inatead OF sandwieh,
ira offer YOU hour when YOU merely demanded
rcd herring. But DIR. OShanghne-sy the present Dis
tn eu.sLed superintendent of the Indian telegraph,
Wio formerly administered model system OF disci-
pine among he native hospitals and from bis Eastern
lockout has added here and there rev light 20 nc
rmt mcDi Of science, who the FIRST 10 pursue ihs
subject with wc-drected rcse6r hes and procure IRON
II definite rtsus describes the uniform eifcsis OF tins
ngent on the human economy consisting IL promp.
and complete acviation Of pain; singular power OF
controlling inoT mate muscular spasn, especially IN
HydrOIiOb and raumGic Ietanus, "a q sOpouhe
"oT hypnotic IN cCuciiating Sleep in0rilnae alg-
monaiioa OF appetite; the decided promotion ofaphro-
disac desire; and sudden cerebral eInl,Gtion with
perfect mental oheerulDt s-thcse effects being N no
case followed hy tie painful nervous unsinnglns,
the oonstipa on and suppression Of secretons "hich
attend The Lsc of opium. lis administration IN excess
las produced IN some cases pecul1r dcluiun, IN
Others persistent caialopsy. The case of Nh. Dono
van, an exIeiimeni on himself quoted IN the best
works on ThcraIeuiics seems to afford most OF the
striking Ilonomcna to be expected from the Influence
o. the drug. We give from Daneilson;
"Urder tie influence Of fourteen grains % the resnou
tct tsdne curing attack Of Nelrasia Mr. Don
evan awke early in morning with rush Of strange
oife vbraory motion through his whole body These
gaouay suided and while Doing Oh he though. IN expo
on toof place IN his head followed by the rushing noise
ana yibrscn before, and afeTward BY strange ahe
sound Various Other noises succeeded His touch
feeling had gradually become and more obuss until
length be ios al feeling M ess he pnched Ansf severely
The Effects Mr. Donovan their HIGHT and
consequences suIpsng ebou-ey lost tbs conscious
p pss d 10 Be @ s the bead sad ss plTsSu q
ny ohes The bIoa in these spots felt as much alive as
ever ell other parts without feeling and 70 pecsp
dcrs snrihoted My intellect Wa not 10 he leA dturosi
din. Il e1terr objects a. n erfecl hesh but
ton thai gave way sleep shot never wake IN this worlds
yet say felt perfectly resigned to this 50 idsn ter
niDsiion Of extreme"
Having daily under his EYES in the streets OF Cal
cuita examples O. this marvellous power OF the Can
job DR.. O'sheue hnessy proceeded IN succession OF
iudiciOUs nts apply IT IN several diseases
attended with much muscular cOnvulsion. Its action
lie discovered TO be primarily on the motor nerves,
promptly inducing complete loss of power IN almost
all the rusoCs; hence us iimeliness N the spnsms OF
Ietlnus in DC cramp Of Ahiac Cholera, m the sharp
construction Of lie muscles Of dcgluiiti0u in Hydro
pbobia In ieanus especially lie met with signal sue
GOES even in bis earliest experiments perfectly resiof-
ing ten in fourteen aud since then TO per-
sonol knowledge a still larger proportion. In the
Sumner of 1852 II wus administered With convincing
success in cases of Asaiic Cholera among the Com.
panys troops III Burneh even IN the collapsed stage
subduiDg cramp and restoring warmth to the surface.
Under its influence alone that peculiar blueless and
shrivCng Of The nails end fingers, Familiarity known
as "weshwomens hands" has been rapidly dispersed,
the flesh pumping GU, rosily again ike dec yed APP
pie unGeT an air-pump. Every intelligent physician
will perceive that there il nothing in the kind OF viz
tue manifested in these which has not direct
bearing, and 10y the mOduS 0DcrGnd on the phe-
IomeuG Of Hydrophobia-since il has been ably con-
tended especially in India, that the three diseases
Of kindred type-thai their phenomena are purely
nervous and functional and that no local niamma-
i.ons Necessary TO their definition. In an occe-
sional contribution TO Tie British and Foreign Mel
cal Review, and in some excellent monographs pub
lsbed in Calcutta Dr. O'ShHug hncssy has given the
results Of bis experiments since 1850, by which il ap
pears that in almost every case with the Cannabis
alone be he's succeeded III procuring perfect aleyia
ton Of pain, complete control OF the spasm aud its
attendant apprehension and Internal ima sinaton-in
deed an utter routing Of all tie horrors Of the disease;
and claiming with a saving clause one or two cures,
he makes il evident that in every instance painless
Tranquil, conscious termination u aiia.nablc His pa
tenis have dral k water with ayility, padded in ii
end made merry with H. and been friendly with il TO
the cnd. That il hos thus overcome the horrors of
Rabies and all the horrors of such death bed should
procure for the Cann6bis consideration than 1t
has met with at the hands of the profession in this
country The lection, hitherto valid, that i's pre-
paraiios Of unequal strength and that the drug
loses all IFS virtues by change OF climate, IS coaclu
sivoly met and defeated at last by the admirable aco-
hOlic extract OF MIR. Robinson. The wnier al ihis
has seon sepos of tic sun Rifles an hour before il-
riousy hydio hobc, under the influence of the Can
nabia not on drinking water freely but pleasantly
waebing his face and hands.
In COZ iusion would invoke for the CaRHaJis In
doa .le interest of American wri crs and prac onels
bv rescarch and experiment Lest Summer, some edi-
foial remarks in a Jersey paper ffom the pen
a gentleman who formerly resided in Calcutta, called
the at Cnon of the prof ssion in that Stale to the viz
tues of the drug in view of tho fTeque cy of hydro
lhobic cases in The vicinity of Trenton. MOI Only does
The Cannabis seem not to have Leen included in DR..
Grscoms exl erimenis but find no mention of yapor-
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