Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-25
Scientific.

s.7L 80 Scientific.
LoBELIA is said to have been sue
cessfully administered by a Cleveland
physician in three welI-marked cases of
lock-jaw.
AN italian medical journal states that
deliriuna tremens has been cured by the
administration of a solution of ammonia
in heroic doses.
SPIRITS given to a baby, or, what is
much the same, drank by the mother, |
is poison for the body, and may be
the starting of a habit which leads to
ruin.
by choral hydrate have been mem
toned. They were people who took
the drug without the direction of medi-
cal men. b E...r. -..-..nF adj
ONE of the French journals says that
a society has been formed in Paris, now
numbering more thun a hundred menu
wish that his body, after death, be
used for the promotion of anatomical
science i
A TRACE of blood in a pail of water, so
slight as not in the least to affect the
color, can readily be detected by the
use of ocetote of zinc, the value of which
discovered by Cunning. t-.s
PRocroR, the writer on astronomy, in
his book speaks of the red prominences
on the sun as extending "to some
eight hundred thousand miles from
his surface" The received estimates
do not usually exceed eighty thousand
miles. -
M. sLEVERRIER, the eminent French
astronomer has Invented an optical
signaling apparatus for military spur-
poses, which can be used during the
day time, and the signals of which can
be seen at a distance of eight miles by
day, with the naked eye. SNSC@
WE learn from the Grocer that expe-
riments recently carried on in India
have proved that coffee pulp will yield,
upon d~istillation,- nine per cent. of its
own weight of spirit, equal in strength
toScotch whisky. Nothing is said as to
the flavor of this spirit in its raw state
but it appears to realize on the spot a
price nearly equivalent to one dollar per
gallon.
THE use of nitrous oxide gas, says DR..
McLaren, in the Edinburgh Medical
Journal, should be avoided in all cases
of diseases of the lungs in which the
breathing is much embarrassed, and
when there is evidence of either serious
brain or heart disease. One of its great
est advantages as an ansesthetic is its
safety, only two fatal cases having been
recorded; but there is a disadvantage in
the rapidity of the patients recovery
from its effects. -
A SPECIES of worm which locates it
self in the throat of snakes. was re-
Gently described by Mr.. Quaterfages, at
a meeting of the Paris Academy of Sci
ences. These worms aus such an
irritation in the throat as to close it,
and cause the animal to perish by suffo-
cation-~r Eiz-- .--zF
A SMALL plant, by means of which it is
supposed that smallpox marks can be
prevented from becoming permanent, is
used in India by the natives, who cover
with its leaves the bodies of patients re-
covering from the disease. 1t is said to
be very effectual in removing the traces
of other eruptive affections. E a.
THE news of the result of the Univer-
sity boat race between Oxford and
Cambridge, on the LIST of April, reached.
minutes of actual time after being dis
patched from London. This was by
the submarine cable route. The time
by the Russian overland line was thirty
minutes.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY, in arecent lecture
at Liverpool on the geographical dis
tribution of animal life, ascribed the di-
versity of ansmals to geological changes
having isolated the original number of
the animal kingdom in large islands
| where, under the influence of climate,
departures from the original types took
place. iaae-a- g
n Mr.. J. A. STRoBER, a gentleman re-
| siding at Shoneck, Peoria county, Ill.,,
during last summer, placed several cat
fish in a rain-water hogshead, the water
in which froze solid during the winter,
: and of course must have been mbed-
ded in the ice. The other day, in ex-
amining the hogshead, he found the fish
swimming about as if nothing had hap
pened. eeEA - E-EG- %
NJ. SEccHI, of Rome, in photographing
the various heavenly bodies, states that
he took a photograph of the moon,
eight inches in diameter, in the seventh
day of her age, also a photo
graph of Jupiter, which showed his
belts distinctly, and also traces of some
of his satellites. But the point of fact
most notable in the latter operation
was, that it took twice as long time as
the moor the day after the full, so that
the force of light-actinic rays only-in
Jupiter is greater than that of the
moon, seeing that their distances from
the sun are as five to ten His photo-
graph of Saturn, though only the TWEEN
ty-fifth of an inch in diameter, not only
showed the black spaces between the
planet and the ring, but the shadow of
the planet on the ring. 1t bore to be
magniied to a distance of one and a
half or two inches, and established the
two remarkable facts, that the planet
was more somber than the ring, and
that the actinic light of the planet was
stronger in proportion than that of the
moon. This is thought to prove that
Saturn has a rejecting atmosphere.
CAN anything be more ~sorrowfully in
%structive than this picture of a court
scene in Galena, Ill, where a Judge
found before him a young girlAarrested
for disturbance in the street. Judge
] anH prisOnap oazad at each other for a.