Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-29

surgical operations, acknowledgement pic
lures having been taken by M. Doyen, a
distinguished French surgeon, that show
various kinds of operations from the first
cut of the knife to the laying on OF ban
dages. A it is often impossible to make
verbal descriptions so complete as to
avoid all risk of error, it IS insisted that
such pictures will be of great Importance
to students of surgery
Allowing a factor Of safety of 4, Pro-
fessor Juellig has calculated the following
as the longest possible spans for wires of
the different materials: Cast steel wire,
3.42 miles; silicum bronze, l.56 miles TO
mile; wrought iron, 1.02 miles; soft cop
per, O.53 mile. No allowance is made for
wind pressure, or for snow or ice.
Increasing experience, according to DR..
Hutchinson, confirms the view that can
Ger begins as a strictly local disease, and
that complete removal at an early stage
will cure so per cent. of all cases. Thus
far all search for a drug that will cure
has failed.
The gigantic forms of early times-the
| ~mastodons, aurochs n elands-have
disappeared from Europe, their hour hav-
| ing struck, says DR.. Seitz, when the tenn
%pestuous atmosphere became quiet and
the changes of season became regular.
New and elegantly formed creatures
| nave taken the place of these Titans of
the animal kingdom. In other parts OF
F, the world, however, these radical changes
! nave not yet taken place, and Important,
elephants, buffaloes and crocodiles still
occupy extensive tracts, while IN the
tropics are many creatures OF the lower
orders that seem too large to belong to
| the present time. In Brazil, huge butter
flies, gigantic wasps and colossal locusts
| drive away lizards and the smaller birds.
The largest butterfly known, the Agrip-
pima, measures more than a quarter of a
! yard between the tips of its extended
wings; and the giant locust Of northern
Brazil is four inches long, with a strength
enabling It to draw blood from a mans
! hand with each of the As tooth-like pro-
j~ections arming it's hind legs. A water
bug Of East India is three inches long.
with a curved spine on the breast that
may inf!ict a troublesome wound. The
great ~blue-green dragon fly Of South
America Is harmless, but, to enable it
to lay it's eggs far beneath the water, it's
body is five and a half inches long,
though scarcely larger than a knitting
needle.
The electric light bath is found by DIR.
Kellogg to give no specific effect that
| could not be had from any source of ra-
diant heat as efficient. The elimination
Of heterogeneous wastes is most favored
by the Russian bath, but the electric
light bath stimulates the elimination of
carbOnic dioXide in a very marked de-
gree, induces far quicker and more
profuse perspiration than the Turkish
and Russian baths. It's speedy action
tends to free it from the ~eXhausting eff
fects of other baths inducing perspira-
ton.
Thn NOM cpon1n1ncc goal nf NV Wy
Wallace consists of about SO per cent of
coal dust and Z per cent of a mixture of
| pyroligeneous tar, with a little caustic
lime. 1t S claimed that this coal, in
qu~arter-pound briquettes, can be re-
tailed in London at q shillings per ton.
and it is absolutely smokeless.
The formation of pearls is proven by
NJ. Leon Dignet to be the result of def
mite physiological action to remove par
| asites or other cause of irritation, and
not a purely accidental deposit.
1t appears tina the first work of the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is
to be an attempt to free certain localities
from malaria by a novel method. Major
Ronald Ross observations in India tend
! to show that human malaria is not con-
veyed by the domestic mosquitoes, those
of the genus Culex, but by those of the
1 genus AlOpueleS, anu llII tIle latter, uH-
III the former, are seldom found in arti-
fetal collections of water, but only in
natural ponds and puddles. The sup
preston of the dangerous mosquitoes de-
Ponds upon whether their breeding places
are sufficiently isolated and rare. An ex-
! petition to West Africa is to make in
quiries into this subject. and it is hoped
that the destruction of the mosquitoes
and the preventing of malaria may re-
quire simply the inexpensive removal Of
a few small pools.
The singular exploding bean of Batavia,
upon which a French botanist has lately
had opportunity to report, is like a cigar
in form and color, but only about an inch
long. The strikingly energetic manner
with which it scatters it's seeds is it's
unique characteristic. Thrown into wa
ter, it rests quietly for two or three min
utes, then eXplodes with a noise ard
splash suggesting a small torpedo; rip
ened thoroughly on the plant, it scatters
it's seeds forcibly. but with a slighter
noise: and when plucked before maturity
and ripened in a warm spot. it splits open
gradually and without noise. The phe-
nomena are due to the hard outer shell
and the moisture absorbed by the porous
inner tissue.
In the curious case brought to notice by
DIR. Stewart MCGUIRE, skin was taken
from the freshly amputated leg of a white
mar to graft upon the leg of a negro. The
! surgeons belief, based on the investiga-
| ton of Karg. was that augmentation
would gradually take place, but after a
| year the artificially formed skin has been
found to be firm, pliable and painless,
| and as white as it was when implanted.
Quickness o action, freedom from dan
| ger and absence of nausea are the advan-
tages claimed for iced chlOroform, which