New-York tribune., 1873-12-24
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MOTIFS.

COLORISG THE EYE.--Prof Lewis is credited
with dcvisIng very ingenious means Of colorng
opactics in the cOrnea eye. The instrument used
is bundle OF from three very fine sewing needles
inserted into handle. For colorng matter ordinary
water pigments used rubbed to pasty conslsehce
and mixed with little giycerne For the black OF the
pupil India ink is employed The surface OF the Opaque
spot being wiped clear from moisture the paint is APP
pOSs are made 10 penetrate repeatedly and rapidly IN
varying directions until much Ol tue OPAQUE suiace -
gone over Win the pigment. Two Ot noie ,h ,
the process necessary order to realize the com
plee effect The operation Is sad 70 gave Tue patent no
into TISSUES, II cannot ne washed out by tears
MARRIAGES OF BLOOD RELATIoNS.-Statistics
presented the French Academy show that the mar
rages OF blood relations form about two per cent OF all
the marriages in France, and that the deaf and dumb
offspring at birth of cOnsanguneois marriages, are in
proportion the deaf and dumb born in ordinary we'd
ock-at Lyons full pereent at least 25 per cent In
Paris aud 30 per In BordeauXthe proportions OF
the deaf and duab BY BIRTH increasing with the degree
OF blood relationship. The data obtained show that, If
the danger OF having deaf and dumb child in ordinary
marriage represented by hgres is there Will be 1s
in marriages between first cousins, 81 III marriages be-
tween uncies ana qleceI and 10 Ia dritges PctweeI
neDhews and aunts. Ii appears, too, that the most
healthy parents II related IN blood, may nave dear
ana S,'lQb CHILDREN; while deaf and dumb parents II
NOT related Very rarely have deaf aud dumb ehldien
SUBSTITUTE FOR HUMAN MILK.-M. Dujar-
children in place OF milk, reported in La France Med
icae are OF much interest He made OF jelly pre-
pared by soaking tablespoonful OF the meal in glass
Of water for twelve hours then straining through
sieve, boing till the whole assumes the consstence OF
elly and adding sugar salt, according to TASTE An
alysis that 100 of the meal contain 81
grammes of water 10 of fatty matters 65 OF starcn.
22 of ntrogenOus matters 1.5 OF mineral substances,
and 10 celuose deXrlnc, and loss. It's nutritious
yaue therefore, food for children i'll regard To nitro
genOus plastic elements. aud such as are resplra-
tory is analogous that OF human milk or cows milk;
besides these, contains iron than do most OF the
ordinary articles of food. NJ BeaUmtz cites the fact
that four ne W born infants fed with the Dreparar
tion referred TO, and IN with satisfactory re-
suits.
THERAPEUTICAL VALUE OF CABBAGE LEAVES.
The de Ia Therapeuique enumeTates OF the
uses in which cabbage leaves have proved OF special
value disease Among the thus specified, prom
inence given the property this leaf possesses
exciting and augmenting suppuraton OF the secretion
of ulcers ueeratons vescles and pustules It has the
same action the nteguments affected By iufamma-
ton from erysipelas bos. and removes tissues
morbid condition. This augmentation OF suppuraon is
constantly followed by an amei0ratlOn and often by q
cure-t is the condition necessary the result and the
property OF the leaf which determines this result is an
indirectly curative property. But this property
the Rere does not consist principle which
yields for absorption, but rather In affinity
which the leaf has for the ytaed secre0ns. The leaf
exercises this affinity on open ulcers, or ulcers
by thick thin scb crust and also the
tnckened epidernis or where it is converted into
thckened rlndlike membranes. The OF ulcer
by leaves however widespread and ion g-sahdug
it may be- Is without danger and relapse is very rare