New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-09

=, distinctly at sistauce % m3fe tan tSsr'y-hEe
e.. and r.ssrnhl.i tbe sgand Of sn old tuTa-spii
They could De So pended 3. will ~ The gi' 1h' '!-
have t,eir se,. 10 the mus les o! ne mmoar
region of tse vert. bral column.
N. Jsbert recogtiz-d the fact, With NV. 'eipe'a
and Clooue,. tina: ,bsornal sounds might be heald
in me hin and in the ,hc1lle-; that certain sonnds
in .he shoulder especiay, m sh; be made, as NJ. Vel
mean had remarked. under .he Influence Of the viii
when he tcason tf :be long part OF the bcepS OF the
arm hsi suffered csarge OF position, or when u hai
been lu1at-d. Ba. according 20 VI. Jo1srf there IS
great difersrce between these Sounds aui ihose ne
has men,iored which shoS regularity IA a;'"fuah'e
with the invount, ,ry contraction ofthe muscle, the re-
lsxa,;on OF the tendon ant the Percussion in oony
groove.
Certain snatonic couformatons s-e indeed necesse-
~ 10 produc, these effects and nowhere can they be
found more advantageous than in the ordinary shesfh
Of the lateral muscles Of the and The groove
which r. rcsives them. These anatomical relations,
continues H. Jobsrt so favorable 70 he iormiton
of sounds, voluntary and involun ay toat there are
persons wbo by practice, have become able 10 exc
cute airs, the Marseilidise, IL NJche BGrdroSe'
and La ydrcle Frabcltse, vita perfect regularity,
merely by the action 0i the muscles OF the shin-oone
Never in any other region o the body have sucn and
So curious sounds been produced.
We have dwelt upon the present communication
because Il gives explanation of physiolosca pne-
pomona which are rather rare, sod which Science has
not studied sufficiently Perhaps II will Sho" that
the name of ,prtraPpes, given to the cause OF THIS
set is no. less contradictory to common sense than -
the logic Of language; and that these spirits, which
the dictionary calls incorporea substances and which
Il deprves Of all shadow OF body, not only cannot
rap without muscles, but that they cannot hear with
ont ears or consequently respond TO the requstions
which sre made of them; because, in fact, the com
munica;ion of NJ. Jobert sppsars TO US to give the
final blow to jurgery which is rot without dan
ger for the reason and the health OF impression.ble
proseyies.
Too generally when a fact is presented which ap-
pears 20 eoptrsyene the established order n things,
ignorance bsstens 10 attribute II to supernatural
cause; that is to say violation of eternal and i'm
mutahle laws; and the uggler never fails 70 profit by
il at the expense of creduous pubic. Science, on
the contrary begins byyerifyrg the fact she records
IT, and then sets her.ef patiently At work to hnd out
the explanation OF il, without ever becoming weary at
any ,ue or labor pent in this search. If she has not
found the explanation she frankly confesses it, when
she has found IT, she makes no secret of Il. In the
fact which sbe has established Science gives rs
the explanation Of the pretended spirraPpsags, as
on aroiher occasion see the ISdtpRddsee Of Mays,
1857 she gave that of the Music Metals as on an
other still Indtpenddhce Of May and September q,
1857 she gave us that of the incombustibiy OF tte
hand plunged into molten lead; and as quite lately
Independence Of April 97l she has declared that she
haj rotbirg to DO with the OF NJ. Sax. The
difficulty with the miracles OF the present is that
they come few centuries too late