Sauk Rapids frontierman., 1855-06-07
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ss ". ! IA GREAT BLRssiIst 4.
our county nm Saturday night vas
blessed ~ ! heavy fall of ruin, Itcon-
lmeneed abont dark md continued
tiirough the night, and until about nine
o'clock Sunday morning, The forest
md the fields wear anew aspect. Every
living object y refreshed w shall non 4
have wheat, oats. corn, and potatoesA
in abundance, and enigrants need not,
stay awayfor fear of meeting with II
famine up here We have heard some
Imurmers at the prospect Of . failure of
crops this season. We made some lu-
gubrious faces ia our last paper under
this head. We iboUght things looked
dubious. We like good liying, and
were afraid we should come short M il
next spring. we thought We knew
some others Of similar proclivities s.sh
ourself Id this wise, and we felt for
them. Thenswe remembered the new,
comers who We were afraid would seer
pinchiDg times before another spring
For these reasons we did complain; we
should not have done 50 for ,chatsrsy
~. y right The drought was right
and the shower i right, 4 is all right
anyhow 80 long 5as We ali live, and
breathe without obstruction 10 our liber-
" or our throat WkY should q living
man complain
A GREAr MEDIcAL DrscovrRY
.Mercs,y iaken lron M< System By EN.,
t,icilq he article which follows, pub
llished ia the Scientific Bulletin, Of Paris,
u entitled 8 The Application Of Chemi-
cal Electricity TO Therapeutics" Tho
not literal, the substance Of the article
IL intact. The Bulletin says
Chemistry is about TO drag from an
anticipated death thousands of men,
who. in the exercise Of their cruel pro-
fessions gliding looking-glass plating,
white lead manufacturing, &C., and al
so those whose systems have been ruin
ined by mercury in its various forms
for this science has raised her right arm
and arrests their misery and destruc-
ton This discovery 4e extracts from their
bodies, atom by atom, every particle of
metallic substance from every part of
the human system. Where do we get
this great hope |? In . memoir present
ed to the French Academy Of Sciences
| by nj. Dumps, which has for its authors
two men whose names will strike the ear
of the public for the first time to-day.
But if they prove what they promise to
tAL L. II, thn
greatest benefactors Of humanity
These authors are Andre Poly, of Ha-
Ivana, and Maurice Vergnes. The in
Ivention consists of an application Of
chemical electricity TO accomplish the
above purpose, and Of ali the marvellous
things that electricity has achieved this
is the boldest and most triumphant.
The modus operandi is as follows A
metallic bath is insulated from every
thing, and partially filled with acidulatg
water, to convey more readily the eleAa
trical currents. The patient lies unph
| q seat in the tub insulated entirely a6m
the bath. When gold, silver, or mcr-
cury is in the system, nitric or hydroch
/ loric acilsare employed. When lead
is suspected the acid used is sulphuric.
This doie. the negative pole Of bat
ltery is put ia connection with the bath,
while the positive pole is in the hands Of
the patient. Now the work Of purifica-
tion commences The electricity pre-
cipitates itself, hunts, digs, searches,
and disco ars every particle Of metallic
substance Concealed in the most pro-.
found tissues, bones. nerves, and joints
Of the patient, resolves them entire
from the human organism, deposits them
upon the sides Of the bath, where they
can be seen with the naked eye.
Aftsr,&h4 end Of one Of those opera,
tions 4 Chemist Of Havana, M. Moissand,
havint analyzed 9l2 drachms Of the
liquid in the bath, saw foaming metal.
lie globule ofthe diameter Of nine-tenths
of mile metre, and this was mercury.
At another time the same chemist saw
a very light, white, precipitated sub
stance, which gave two globules Of me
tallic lead, perfectly visible to the naked
eye, and NJ. Poly announced that he
had taken from the tiba and thigq-bone~
Iof patient quantity Of mercury that
had been there, creating intense suffer-
ing for fifteed years.
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