New-York tribune., 1874-05-21
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL NOTES.

OZONING AR.-An easy means OF ozonng
the air in sick room, described in German period
ical consists in the of powder composed OF peroX
ide of manganese permanganate of potash anl oxaic
acid which has the property OF giving out IN contact
with water, an abundant quantity OF ozone. For
chamber OF middug size 1t is sufficient to use ABOUT
TWO tablespOOnfulS OF the powder over Whlcn are
poured from one 10 one and half tabcspOOnfuls OF
water very two hours. In this way tho quantity OF
produced Is exactly what - wanted the pre-
OF a larger quantity in the air would occasion irritation
uf the coughing All metals, except gold ana
platinum must be removed on account OF the oAiuZihs
effects OF the ozone
SuIPuATEs Productive OF GOITRE.-1n
communication to the French Academy of Sciences, NJ
Bergcrat points ont the influence OK the suphates In
the production OF gotre. He states that before the
year 1885 all the inhabitants Of Saxon in tho. .Naois
were either goirous cretns They then drank water
derived from bank OF gypsum, which on analysis was
found to furnish grain of suphate OF lime per ier
besides some sulphate OF magnesa But in 1885 the
potable water was derived spot situated far above
the bank OF plaster and since then according TO NJ Ber
gere gOre has much diminished, the children are no
LONGER subject to It. and before long the disease VIII
probably have disappeared He also makes me some.
what singular statement that under the conditions OF
abnormal amount Of suphates absolutely the same as
il he hai drank water loaded with gypsum in support
which statement he cites various experiments, Whlch
appear TO leave no doubt "a to It's correctness.
ACTION OF HARD WATERS on LEAD.-Inves-
tigatous made and published by an English physician
confirm the statement made by other expermeners.
that while hard waters OF certain kind exercise
protecting influence lead there are others which act
energctically upon this metal. IL seems from these
researches then that hard waters do not protect lead
simply from the their being hard; but this pro-
lection, when Effected s dependent not only on the
nature OF the salt causing the hardness Dut also on h
proportion for while all experience proves tnat
a small amount of suDhae, at any rate OF suphate OF
lime protect the lead large quantity OF sulphat
of magnesia acts considerably upon IT, IL also appears
that chordcs act upon lead either With or without the
presence OF suphltc, but their action is not great
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do practically affect the question OF the safety OF
Concerned IL being well known that no bad conse-
queuces the OF health. result from such use
CLASSIFICATION OF FOoDs.-A recent writer
undertakes to classify all foods under four physiological
divisions, namely, carbOnlceou'. nltrogenized. phos-
phorized aud fresh vegetables. or the first he makes
bread and butter the type ami to 1t belong in general
all articles in which starch -four fat auI sugar, pre-
domnate they the fuel, serving chiefly 10 sustain
the animal heat by the slow combustion Of the carbon
given on carbonic acid 10 the act of respration--a
KIND ot food whlcn cOnSnmPuve people snoud use ~
abundance OF the second class roast beet presented
as the typc aud, In general the heSh ana b!ool or
quadrupedS. which, when taken In ones stomach, are
rather simply absorbed than disested booause being
already Muscular ingredients, they need no elaborate
change TO be appropiaed into the muscular tissues in
to supply ther waste This class is consequently
OF great value To hardwOrKng people To the third
ton persons to brain labor Lemons and lemon
juice by this writer made The type OF the fourth class
which l.. he thinks good for eVer body becaus" OF
the medicinal effect OF all fresh vegetables ana f.ts-
stimulating Ghe secreting organs, keeping TIE system
pure and counterdctug any tendency 10 scuryy scrof
ua, eruptiOns, indigestion, constipation, ETC.
DELICATE SURGICAL PERFoRMAyCE.-Tho
Medical Journal gives account of the most in-
Senous aud critical performances in surgery designed
TO remedy the nturnng OF eyelashes upon the eyebal
in of 90 years standing the irritation OF the
lashes thus turned IN being great that the patient
had been accustomed to relieve himself by pulling them
out This perpetual irritation had produced opacity
OF the cornea OF one eye, and the probability was
that the same intErous consequences would overtake
the other IN short time, but for speedy remedy In
the operation IN Qnstion very fine curved needle
threaded with n double strand of fine SILK, ami the
point of the neee then entered upon the tarsal
border or the d W the precise spot where the
i've hairs emerged from tho hd-suriace, and, being
pusbci Oute ard the front OF the needle made its
pearance tbrougnthe skin just above the eye
lashes. when the needle had travelled the lid the
double throsd, with ut its free extremity, was
drawn upoR until the moose ready disappear
the iii tissues. The wild hair pushed gently
through tbis moose and the thread drawn upon
IT drew the vicious hair i'll the leaving lt
.stll attached to IFS hair bub-ths being specially I'M
p0rantbnt drawn completely Ihrou the free border
iof the lld n passage made for by the needle the
point or the hair sticking In front through the
neede puncire The rationale OF ks operation IA that
che hair drawn through the lid WILL by constant trae-
ton III It's tswth Grange the position OF the hair bulb
ana m TINS way correct the wild direction which 1t for
merly took. " ava