Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-01-01

THE INFLuENcE OF THE SUN's RAYS in Cox.
sUAPrIoN.-We eoyy the following remarks frou,
the Boston Medical Journal in which they are ore
dited to DR.. Coventry, as forming a portion of an
address delivered before the State Medical Seciety
There is one subject viii ich requires more ex>
tended notice than it has usually received from our
systematic writers. 1 refer to the influence Of the
suns rays. Every ph7siologist knows how abso ute.
y necessary they are the growth Of plants and the
etiolating effect their absence or withdrawal has
upon the complexion Is ii unreasonable to sup
pose that they may have some influence in causing
or preventing tuberculosis? It seems we'll establish.
ed that tubercles may be produced In animals by
conhning them in close and dark apartments on
.hsagre diet DR.. Hall says that by this means he
Uu,r ttty degenerations in animals, which he
culosis In the city whei" O rss,ds ~ WIN
office connected with large me1Sl.tiin estaSiishs
ment, so situated that the sun shons -non II
II was in the rear of the building, with sinsss
window; aud that so surrounded With buildings s
to exclude the The occupants sfthe efhce died
one after another, until the proprietors became
alarmed, and had the office removed to another
part OF the building. One of the occupants l at
tended when in the last stage Of his disease He
entered the office, strong, healthy man, with ne
hereditary tendency TO the disease and temperate
and regular in all his habits but in loss than two
years he was carried like his predecessors, 20 the
grave, victim to consumption. In his case was
never able to discover any onuse unless IL was oc-
eaPying that fatal office, where be was book'keeper
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MONSTER BiRD.-A recent traveller in South
America gives the following sketch Of his rst sight
Of the great MyterfoKs Ansrfeans:-"As was
riding one evening, across the Pantanes (marshes);
district on the south side Of Puepos Ayres where
the soil Is clay, and the surface covered with little
shallow pools Of water with pretty water plants and
quantities Of wading birds, saw the most maRni-
hcent bird ever behel1 He must be the king that
was sent down from heaven to meet the demand Of
the frogs-a perfect emperor OF cranes had Just
been Watching big beron, when caught sight OF
this fellow. AT first thought he was cow and
then that he was q man. AT last perceived that
his gait far too stately for any biped but bird
and he all snow white, except his back and his
nee ks which were black, and bread collar round
the lever part of his neck, between the black and
white. which was deep red;and his beak was ponder
GUS, like unto pecans, and full foot long, with
a heavy lower jaw. He must have stood five fest
high without his boots and he let me leok at him
ever so long and he stalked about quite promiscu,
Gus and there was close to him big white heron,
that locke quite small and as stood and wonder
cd, he spread his wings, all snow white and sailed
straight away down south for m lies and miles till
the sPeck OF white 10 the sky too small TO see.
THEssLAvE TsADE,-The South Csrolinian, al.
luding to the suggestion made by Gov. Adams for
the renewal OF the Slave Trade, says -
sour first impressions were that the subject
| should be passed over in silence but we incline
now to the belief that some expression of opinion
from our Legislature should be given as best calcd
lated to allay strife, likely to arise beth abroad end
at home in relation to the matter. We have everJ
confidence that the policy OF the measure will no
pc endorsed by the Representatives of our people
| VINO, we are sure, value toe highly their presen
slave property to approve any measure which will
| weaken and ultimately destroy Its value Th
rapid increase In Numbers Of those We have wi kee
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