The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-22

Connection was then made with Salem and
word soon returned that the result there sat-
isfactory. The next experiment was with Mr.. Fol-
som, whose pulse had been greatly accelerated BY
stimnlants. This also worked beautifully. The
third trial was with Dr. CLARK, who had greatly re-
duced his pulse by dose Of veratrum. The rate
OF puIsations IN this was about ufty-two 10
mona. This patients pulse was found TO oeat at
the rate OF l22 throbs per minute, and each
distinctly worked by the electrical machinery both
patient with the organic disease Of the heart.
ais pulse beat very Tregularly and created quite
In the evening DR.. b. A. Gould, OF Cambridge. the
president OF the last annual session, delivered his
valedictory address In the Tabernacle church. after
which Mrs. Walcott held a levee at her residence.
Third Days Notwithstanding Pnpers-
Trichina Spiralis-Coal and Iron In China
Scientific Education.
SALEM Mass, Aug. Il, 1869.
The proceedings OF the American Association for
the Advancement OF Science yesterday were OF peca
iar interest. Some, II not all the papers read, were
of great interest and the facts developed cannot but
add to the general OF important scientnc
Information. ssa
After brief genera meeting the association
formed into sections A. and Q. In section A pa
pers relating 10 mathematics physics and chemistry
were read as follOws:-Professor L. B. Elliott, of
Washington. gave q life table OF American seagoing
vessels, derived from the career Of 7ss vessels
table showed that out OF 900 vessels 5s4l survive
10 years, 2i9.s 20 years. 572 30 years and none 80
Of those which have been bnt 10 years ss years
longer: built 20 years, ~; 80 years, 6.2: ~ years,
81.
Professor PIERCE expressed his interest in The
paper and a desire that similar table might be
made for English vessels to see II the superior edu
cation OF English sea captains would be evinced.
The same gentleman also gave the values of the
standard monetary units in which the United States
securities are quoted in the commercial centres Of
n
which dollar is rated. are really equivalent TO
s1.o95 the Frankfort standard. two and half silver
gulden, to $l.0l44 at Paris, $l.09645; Antwerp
Sl.0226; Bremen, $1.09s9; Amsterdam, sl.0o65; Ber
lin, sl.oo59 Hamburg, si.o77I:
Professor A. c. Twlnlng, OF New Haven, presented
q demonstration of the assumed axiom in Euclid
That there can be but one parallel to given line
Mr. william Perrel of Cambridge, gave some re-
suits of discussion OF tide operations at the Bos
ton Dry Dock and also at Brest In France. t
Professor ". A. Norton or Yale College, commit
nicafed the principal results Of series Of experi
ments which ne had made TO test the theoretical
verse strain Professor S. Hunt, Of Montreal, read
some notes on the chemistry OF copper ION the We
ocity Of the electric current over telegraph wires
by Professor G. w. Hough. Mr.. David Murray
meteoric showers. Mr. Pliny E. Chase OF PM.
kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital for forty
four years, confirmation Of the conclusions OF
LOOMS and others, that ciOudiness, rainfall ana
temperature are each controlled TO some degree Dy
the lunar phases. Also, that with certain degree
OF opposition between the lunar curves OF rainfall
and temperature seemed to indicate q partial de-
pendence OF the temperature influences upon the
tidal currents IN the atmosphere as well upon
case of four planets resuIts were obtained similar
and even more strongly marked.
J. Baker Edwards Of Canada, the 'Trichina
Spirallsn The professor stated that the worm was
first discovered IN ls42, and was for long time re-
garded as harmless In 1860 Professor Zencker OF
Germany first traced this disease to the eating Of
diseased pork. Since that time 1t has been
Investigated. The worm destroys life BY
reducing Muscular energy and by operating upon
the nerves SO as 70 interrupt vitality its natural
porated in the books, and the speaker thought q
much larger number than they were aware OF SUI
fcred from this disease, which often proves fatal In
consequence OF the ply sicans not recognizing 1t in
the diagnosis. Several cases had lately occurred in
Canada unuer his observation. In one family a
mother had died from 1t after suffering thee weeks
and daughter in six weeks. In another case
where the patients were cured portion Of flesh was
taken out and the worms discovered. The patients
recovered in about eight weeks with impaired health
DIR. T. $. CODbold had found period OF slxty-nine
muscle flesh worms OF the human subject into the
sexually mature adult trlchina OF the dog. II all
from three to six days might be expected before In
testlnal irritation would be marked symptom.
But cases where tine worms were young and
free in the muscle development might take place
in few hours and rapid multiplication
ensue before. other encysted worms should
be released from capsules. Thus succession
OF fresh rritatons to the muscular and nervous sys
tenn might oe expected from the nrst few hours TO
annned IN Chicago and Hamilton no single case OF
encysted trichna was found IN the nesh, but IN the
Montreal cases one or TWO distinct and complete
symptoms had somewhat abated, but considerable
system which frequently terminates fatally appears
to result from excessive generation or the
healthy persons are frequently killed sooner
than older and more feeble persons. the reasons
being that in the former case probably more food is
eaten. digestion Is more rapid, nausea more readily
overcome by active exerton, aud the breeding or
the worms becomes excessive and continuous. In
the Hamilton cases the young woman died in three
weeks, whist her mother survived six weeks sftes
eating the fatal repast. In 1885 some valuable
periments were conducted in reference to the pro
whose researches on CesOd Entoza place him at the
head OF English authorities on such subjects After
feeding animals with trhchnOus food seven
experiments on birds all proved negative. Three
sheep, two dogs, one pig and one mouse also gave
negative results. Nine cases were successful, Wiz.
-Four dogs, two cats, one pig, one Guinea pig and
one hedgehOQ. While we might, therefore, conclude
that birds and herbivorons mammals were very un-
also found that other animals, as the dog and pig.
for instance, might partake OF the food and yet
escape injection. This helped to explain the
ed facts that large parties have eaten OF Tchinous
food in company, and some had been killed. others
suffered slightly. and, again, some escaped alto
gether.
At the conclusion OF the reading Of the paper Pro-
fessor Agassz said be hoped that these disclosures
would exert no disturbing influence upon the appe
lite OF the public for not alone pork. but every other
kind OF meat contained such inhabitants not trichi
nal but similar In nature He assured the associa-
ton that no could eat hsh without eating some
hundreds Of such little creatures, and that II any
body wished to avoid such things they would have
To abstain from an food.
Other papers Of interes. were read by Professor
Thomas Meehan on the Nature OF Glands in Acacia
and Cassla Visual Education, by Professor b. W.
Hawkins OF the Park, New YORK, In which he advised
the establishment OF museums IN connection with
public parksl While receiving impressions the
bowers OF observation would be educated. Such
Institutions he thought, would do more good than
the reformatory institutions now existing: and he
would have every name represented therein freely
translated into simple and understandable language.
The present modern system Of education was iase,
he said, when it withdrew boys at an early age from
their mothers influence under the pretence that they
must receive an education which 1t was impossible
for woman to give.
Professor Agassz, In speaking to the paper. said
he was satisfied that the basis OF all future education
would be the contemplation OF the works of nature