New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-29
HEALTH AND DISEASE.

ErfIcr OF CARBoNIc ACID ON THE SsiS.-A
communication has been lately made 10 the Academy
of Sciences Of Paris on the sensation Of hsst caused
BY csrbopic acid One of the most singular proper
ties of this gas Gays the report is its decided effect
upon the skin. All parts Of the body that come In
contact with it, feel immediately extraordinary in
crease of heat which is not exhibited BY the thsrmoU
ster A person placed in room, heated to twenty Do
grees certigrade, and plungng his naked arm into
receiver full Of carbonc acid gas, feels - though 10
had put his arm into something fifteen or twenty DE-
erees hotter than the air Of the chamber. This prep.
srty has been turned TO account medically in thermal
establishments where baths and douchee of the gtN,
sometimes pure and sometimes mixed, have been ~
mipstered to invads-with what effect q not stated.
NJ Bousspgault avs that in trench Of On old SUI
phur mine in New Granada, he was almost sufocatsA
and thrown into violent psrspfation by this gas, the
heat Of which he believed, ct the time to b equal 70
forty degrees but his Thermometer, after being sn q
hour in the trench, only marked nineteen dsgTsss-
three degrees, in fact less than the tsmpsrsturs d
the surface in the shade. The Professor also felt Q
prickipg sensation in the eyes from the effect Of the
gas, and he was assured by the miners that they a.
most all suffered from weaknsss and blindness.
TrPHUs FEVER IN GREAT BRITANNIA classifcs,
top of oil the patients admitted into the London Fs-
YER Hospital with " continued fever" for several
years, shows considerable prepondersnoe Of males;
but this accounted for in the report Of that Asttu
ton on the ground that the patients largely d.
rived from the poor population Of the country, who,
in times of epidemic and general Distress resort To the
metropolis in search Of employment The s>ases
would appear TO exert no important bearing On the
prevalence of typhus. An analysis of the hospital
admissions for period Of eight consecutive yssrs,
shows remarkable deviation from anything lks Uni.
formty in the comparative number of patients for the
corresponding months. Sometimes the cold, some
times the warm are the favorite seasons In one year
the Spring. in another the Autumn, nov January end
now july The duration of the fever Is sisted 10 b
from fourteen to twenty.one days more oftsn the
fever will terminate in death recovery ct from the
twelfth TO the eighteenth day. The ratio Of mortality
in typhus is difficult matter accurately to desrmiAs,
so much do the statistics chroncled under this hesd
depend on conditions and circumstances. An analysis
of the reports of the London Fever Hospital, from
Isi9 TO 1859 inclusive, gives the following results In
lSi9 the rate Of mortality IT'S per cent? in 1850,
GAL in 1851, 22.40 in 1852 1916; in 1853, ll.S2-
clearly showing that no reliable deductions can be
made from the results Of those years. Experisacs,
however shows that the mortality Of typhns 10 largely
increased after the middle period Of life.
INTRODUCING TUBE INTO THE LAaYSx ~
GROUP. m. Bouchat, says the LUsios As3.,
sometime sIcs brought forward proportion to trees
Group by introducing silver tube deep into the
laynx. Having ascertsined tho facility with which
this may be done upon the dead subject he put the
practice into force in two cases of membsnous Group
brought into the Ssints Eugene Hospital. He en-
poys three descriptions of instruments. small
curved cabete open at both ends as director for the
tube straight ylindrcs tube, one and half or tive
centimeters long-furnsbed at it, upper part with two
projecting rms-one placed around its orhcs, sad the
other at elk mllimeters below-end pierced with
hole for the passage Of retaining silk; and pro-
.ecng sheath for the index finger dental dilst0r.
H. BoccHAT considers that his experience establishes
the fact Of the facility with which tubsge Of the
glottis may be performed by fixing . csnuls on the
lower coroG vocales, which does not interfere with
the functions Of the epglottis the tolerance Of this
tube by the aybx the possibility Of relieving tie -
ptyxa Of Group by this in preference 70 usoae-
ctony; the facility with which large pseudo-nsm-
brsnous stons formed D the trscnes ana Drosch
may pass through this mira glottd tube; and the
utility of this rev resource for surgeons 10 remote
locsllties destitute o. all sssistsnss
Drsr.r OF SoAr.-A writer In Tie Aedieal Ga
-ele very emphatic ti' directions to patients suf-
feing from cutsDecus eruptions TO avoid the applca-
ton Of soap TO the irrtsted part Ia the general d.
r.ctors appended to the phsrmscopsa the follow.
irg: Avoid using soap Of any kind TO the effected
parts; substitute to cleanse the skin, irstssd Of
" roap, paste Cruel made Of bran, oasmssl, In
" sesd NEAL arrowroot or starch and warn vstsr, or
with warm milk and water; and yoIk Of sgs ssd
warm water TO cleanse the scalp" The Last named
application lie very usefa in cases Of poge, eczema
Of the scalp in children. Both Of thsss Affections are
often aggravated and kept up BY the psrssvsrng sss
Of sOsp.