The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-12
SCIENCE

A newspaper paragraph gives this IN
stance Of community Of diseases IN man
and animals. A large Newfoundland dog,
belonging TO Mr.. Wallace, Of Upton, Mass,
contracted measles from the children Of
Mr.. Walker. and died of the disease Inc
dog exhibited all the symptoms OF measles
as seen in human beings, and under medical
treatment was convalesclng, wnen ne ran
out i'll the snow, was chilled, and died.
Il is suggested to form an artificial 18TH
mus etween France and England, leaving
narrow space in the centre for the passage
| Of ships The expense would not be much
greater than in boring tunnel, and the al
vantages in some respects greater.
| At the Louisville meeting Of the Amerl-
can Medical Association, S. D. Gross, NJ
D.. Of Philadelphia, avowsd himself an ad-
yocate Of bloodlettiDg for many diseases,
especially those of an inhammatory charac-
ter. He predicted that phlebotomy would
again come to be recognized as therapeu-
tic agent. but that it would not be practlced
indlscriminately.
Ancestors Of the Esquimaux.-Charles
E. Defiance. in one Of his papers on ARC
tic Geology points out some OF the many
striking resemblances between the modern
Esouimaux and the paleolithic man OF
Southern France. The two peoples, sepa-
rated SO widely in time and space, were
alike in their artistic feelings and methods
, of increasing, on tusks, antlers. and bones,
, representations of familiar objects; alike
E also in Their habit Of splitting bones Tor
. marrow, and accommodating them around
! their dwellings; in their disregard for the
! sepulchre of the dead in their prepare
+ ton of skins for clothing. and IN the pal
tern of the needles used IN sewing them 70
! eether; alike also Of their feeding the
musk-sheep and the reindeer. ana IN count
! less other characteristics. II IS wen hign
i impossible to resist Prof. Dawkins's con
clusion that the Esquimaux is the descend
n ant Of paleplithic man, who retreated north
. ward with the arctic fauna with which ne
d lived in Europe.
el Statistics of Suicide in Prussia.-Tht
;. number Of suicides occurring in the king
e dom of Prussia during the four years pre-
s. ceding 1873 is given rs follows in the otiscla
A. journal Of the Statistical Bureau:
y SUICIDES 1862 1870. 1871. lS1s
i. Males 2yn ASA 2,lsss asss
Females, 6I6 6S9 oao %
Total. s1ss 1888 2,723 2,3
no From this it would appear that either tn
female sex is less exposed to the temptatlo
of suicide, or resists that temptation bette
oe than the male. The table shows that In
frequency of suicide increases with age
1t, This is true with regard to the whole mum
Der of suicides, not with regard to those
IS each sex taken separately. Thus suicide
most frequent among males between IN
h ages of ten and fifteen, and again betwee
fifty and sixty, while among females It
most frequent between fifteen and twenty
~ and again after seventy. Of suicides, ma
ried persons constitute 452 per 1000, al
be married, 339 per 1000, and the remalnd'
Ia is made up Of widows, widowers, divorce
persons. etc Mental diseases is by far Il
- most frequent occasion Of suicide kei'g
al, GUS belief does not appear 10 have any mar
md ed influence. On the other hand, the INN
ence of various avocations is very ev'den
IN The favorite modes Of suicide are in DO
md sexes, hanging and drowning-the iatt
hal more frequent in the case Of females; IN,
by firearms on the part Of the males
poison on the part Of the females.