The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-28

Will come down from the clouds of theory or
o. Of the mud of the G. D. Acts, and do the
needed work?
The Lancet calls attention to a subjcec which
will "come home" as the phrase goes. to
eight out of every ten OF our reaters who
have suffered from i'll health-Cookery for the
Sick. We have heard a good deal of late of
cookery schools for the wage-paid classes.
and upon the much writing which fol-
lowed the first ventilation of that subject
the most beneficial results have flowed.
Can nothing be done for the sick
Nothing, says our contemporary, with trite
truthtulness, so much conduces to the
successful treatment of patients in all stages
OF malady as good nursing, and cooking
plays prominent part in the regime. Not
outstanding this circumstance, it is the ex-
| ception to find cook who caa serve up g ba-
| sin of Cruel or arrowroot, a cup of beef tea or
broth, in a fashion likely to tempt the whim-
steal appetite and humor the digestive powers
of an invalid. so apparently simple culin-
airy process as beating up new laid egg in a
cup of warm milk or tea without curdllng it
is feat which can rarely be accom- lished.
THE WAR kITE-Mr. Simmons thu aero
naut, who is inventor and patentee of ma
chine named the parakite, lately made some
what successful experiment with this inven-
machine used on this occasion was 30 feet
high and 80 feet wide. AS soon as the sail
was fixed over the framework, and the
front or windward point of the parakite
was raised so as to allow the wind to touch
! the machine on its under surface, it was in
stantly converted into a concave form and
showed symptoms of rising. The wind was
blowing at the rate Of not more than two miles
an hour; but with this slight breeze Mr.. Sim
mons was carried into the air. We under
stand that these experiments will be repeated
a few times previously to public demonstra-
tons; and should they continue to be sue
cessful, the invention can be put to practical
utility for war purposes, engineering, and sig
| mailing, where 1t is necessary to attain lofty
| elevations. The machine above referred to
covers an area Of 1000 superficial feet, and its
entire weight is 100 lbs. The inventor asserts
that it can be used successfully in any wind
ranging between and 40 miles an hour, and
an altitude of from 600 to 1000 feet can be at
tanned.
The researches of Professor Lister, pub.
lished in the Lancet, 1887, can leave no doubt
Of the power carbolic acid has of neutralising
all animal poisons. The virulent secretion
from ulcers, which formerly caused so many
deaths, by being absorbed into the circula-
ton, and producing blood poisoning, were
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neutralised by this acid. The fact has also
been shown that, when small por ion OF
this acid is added to vaccine lymph, with the
hope of preserving it, the effect is to render il
inert. When, some time after the researches
Of Professor Lister were published, an Indian
regimental surgeon communicated to an
Indian journal the result Of sons
experiments he had made re-
specting the power Of carbolic acid to rendel
inert the virus OF the cobra di capello, and
the saliva of the mad dog, the communication
excited but little interest The virus of the
serpent and the saliva of the dog, which had
been mixed with one third of its measure o.
carbolic acid, had been rubbed on a wound
without producing any effect John Hunter
caused several dogs to be bitten by mad
dog; some of these dogs were left to die from
hydrophobia. The bitten flesh of the otheI
dogs was Immediately cauterised, and al
these dogs escaped the disease; but Mr.
Hunter found that, if ten minutes were al
lowed to pass between the injury and the eau
terisation, the animals died from the poison.
This rapid absorption Of the virus renders il
hopeless to expect much advantage from either
the power OF the cautery or carboic acid tc
neutralize it.-Lire Stock Journal and Fan
cier's Gazette