The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15

not already done SO, and passengers,
they ale wise, will avoid steamers this
do not carry them.
Some Curious Results of Expe rhine nts
Surgery.
The power of the lower forms G
animal life to Withstand mutilation
we'll known. Cut an angle worm in two
and the tail end will reproduce til
head and the head tail. Other worm
may be cut into many pieces and eacl
| fragment will straightway develop
complete worm. A polyp will endur
decapitation a score of times, a new
head growing ON every time. In ik,
manner, the stomach of one of thes,
creatures is capable of developing al
the other parts. Still lower in the
scale, the normal method of multiplied
ton is by division, and elementary ceIIf
of more highly differentiated ORGANISING
seem to retain more or less of the
primitive character. By virtue of this
Inheritance, spiders reproduce Their
lost limbs and crabs their claws. In
the higher forms of life, the power
diminishes SO far as complex organs are
involved still it is retained to a much
greater degree than is commonly sup
posed.
Pull out hair or finger nail, and it
will grow again. Remove a portion of
the skin and it will he renewed, unless
the wound is two broad or the life of
the surrounding parts too feeble. Even
then it is possible to transplant to
the denuded surface minute par
tlcles of skin from other parts, and in a
short time these epidemic islands will
extend their borders until the wound is
covered and the sore heals with scareely
scar. In Like manner q severed fin
ger may be made to grow together
again, and an amputated nose built mn
in form with live flesh from the cheek.
In such cases muscular fbers as we'll
as skin are restored or reunited by in
ternal growth. This may be observed
also wherever a deep cut is healed. It
has been found, too, that the muscular
tissues which perform involuntary mo-
t1ons in the interior of the body possess
the same power of self restoration. 1t
is this recuperative faculty which en-
ables the cattle of Abyssinia to supply
their barbarous owners with steaks
without losing their lives. The hungry
savage throws his OK upon the ground.
makes a CROSS cut in the skin of the
flank, lifts the skin and cuts out a chunk
of beef for his dinner, replaces the skin,
and drives on rejoicing, trusting to in
ternal growth to restore the mutilated
part to health and soundness.
In every wound of the skin or muscle.
nerves are severed. The restoration of
the functions of feeling and motion.
with the progressive healing of the
wound, shows that the nerves are like
wise capable of reparation. The renewal
of nerve connection has been watched in
cases, where, as is sometimes necessary
section of large nerve has been cut out,
In couple of months after the nerve
is cut, a gray lump appears on one ex-
tremity of the severed nerve, Growth
proceeds towards the opposite nerve
end until a new connection is made. at
first more slender than the original
but by degrees the nerve elements in
crease in size and wilderness, until. in
from four to six months, the nervous
cord is fully restored. This process, it
is said, goes on even when two inches
of nerve has been excised.
About dozen years ago it was de-
that cartilage, formerly SUP.
posed to be incapable Of renovation, was
also subject to the same laws. The car
tilaginous tissue of dogs and rabbits was
divided, and at the end of two months
was found to be completely restored.
the tendons by which muscles
are attached to bones are able to reunite
when severed or torn out fortunate
for prominent clergyman
Of this city, whose te,dO AchaLlis was
snapped while walking along
he street one day last winter, thus MAX
ng his foot temporarily useless. Thanks
however, to the gradual reunion of the
;endon, the crippled limb will in time be
-estored to usefulness.
Still more remarkable is the restora-
ion of bones, and even the develop.
nent of bones in abnormal positions by
;he transplanting of the periosteum, the
membrane surrounding bony structures
md the principal agent in celebrating
hem. Formerly. in case of a badly
shattered or diseased bone, the am su-
alton of the limb was the only re-
source. Now the skillful surgeon exca-
rates the damaged parts and in few
months the limb, which has never lost |
is form, repairs it's losses, and regains |
is strength. Attempts have also been |
made to graft healthy bones in place of |
diseased ones, but they have fallen |
hort of perfect success. The trans
planting of teeth has been more sue
,essful, and partial success has attend |
ID the reproduction of teeth by sort |
,pment, a tooth springs from a little |
Jay or follicle, containing an organ or |
,erm for the production of the ivory of |
he tooth and one for the enamel. The |
,ntire follicle taken from a puppy and |
,rafted into the jaw of an adult dog
continues its development, and a per-
ect tooth is the result. Doubtless the
anne would occur in human jaws, and
possibly the dentist of the future will
,e prepared to set the germ of new /
Doth in the place of each one he ex-
racts, giving the patient a choice of the
Whole range of mammalian dentitioni
Among the curiosities of this sort of |
urgery, we may mention the trumpet
losed rats with which a waggish stu
lent puzzled the naturalists of Paris.
By grating the tip of one rats tail into
ne snout of another rat, the produced
creature with trumpet
haped proboscis, for which it had no
Use: vet the connection of the nerves
nd blood vessels was complete, and
he sensibility of the part so keen as to
,reclude the idea of mechanical attach
nent. Similarly cooks combs have
,een furnished with teeth and spurs by
A Wonderful and Valuable Weed.
There is a weed growing in one or
wo gardens of this place, which is pos
essed of wonderful and valuable cura-
i've properties as regards that terrible
;saosa oraval in tine bladder IL is |
laimed bv those who have given it a