AMPUTATION.-Extract from ...
The Times, 1824-10-11T00:00:00

AmPUTATION-.-Extract from the opening lecture of ki1. Abernethy's present surgical course :-" A man had an Inch of his tibia fairly knocked out, and the bone was exposed, so that vou might putyoutr lirger into it.The limb was laidstraight and kept steady. The woound inflamed, and at lengthi granulations began to ghoot up front thie ends of the bone.Tlhere appeared to be evervyprobabili y that in a few days these gianulatiop-s would touch anid inosculate with each other, when, hianig it, just at this juntcture, the man was seized with a vi-olent fit ot' purging. The conseqiuence was.thbt in the course ofthenight alillthe ranulatinini i,isiapl)pe4retl. Still hopes were en- tertahie ; the bark was giveon and the surgeon who attended him forbore tu retnove the limib, thozwh tihere were decided synmptorns of the inconpetence of lheColistittition to repair the injury. The third state of the wound took place; it becamne dry; there wtsa tendency to sloughl on the suiface.nay, it did slough, and an erisype13- tous inflammation was set up around it. The man was delirious ; day after day elapsed, and the sloughing continued, when, as I was going through the square of the hospital one afternoon, in thlC sum- mer.tinie, a dresser came to me and said, I For God's sake come up, there is a nian bleeding to death.' The sloughin2 had caused hae- Toerhagei a vast cuantity of blood surrounded the limb * the man lay like a corpse on the bes, and no pulsation could be felt. Harts. horn had been applied to his nostrils without eterct, but I said, 'Fetch me te amputating instruments; if the rnan is dead, there will be no harm in takisg off his leg ; and if not, there is no harts- horn like the ctt of a knife.' r took ut'the man's iimnb ; the warming.pan wasthen passedover him, burnt feathers and hatts- horn were applied to his nostrils, and lie began to breathe a little. lie was totally unconscious of any operation having been perforrAed -a circumitasce wwich I have ivitnessed thiree times in the course of my life. The symptoms ot' irritative fever continued after the operation, hut gtdiially subsided. Three or four days after the amputation the stuiip was examined; it was of a greenish aspect. and looked exactly as if it had been made from a dead body in the dissecting-room. This man did well ; and I remenmber the fellow, a sturdy beggar in the outskirts of London. many years after. I mention this case to illuxtrate the principle I have laid down, that the symptomns of sympathetic irritative fever, differing in this resuect from those of 'hectic, do not immediately subsitde, though 'the caiuse of tiem is removed."-La,,cet. THu LAs'r OF THE Ai.cnYsvisTs.-Dr. Price cultivated alchymny and astrology as late as the latter half of the last century. Lest any of our readers should confound hirn with another Dr. Price, who was so celebrated about the time of' the American war, we think it right to ad( lie was a physician, anid a member of the Roval Society. In 1784, lie publicly proclaimedl thathe could make gold, and haid mi.de it in the presence ot' several yersons: he even preseated some ol it to the King. The Royal Society, however, enipowered thecelebratetd chyinist, Rlr. Kirwani, and the alchymist, W,Voolfe, to examine into the pretensions of the doctor and lie was obliged to subusit to the trial. He first of' all excesed? himself biy saying, he had employed all the poxwder in the first attempt; but wa.s compelled by reproaches to begin the task. Izn this state his art forsook him; with anxiety lie endearotred to convert mercury, by mcans of phosphoric acih, into silver; Ire performed experiments, whicl consisted in treating arsenic with volatile alkali, and what i# called the Constantine experinment. All failetd; anti lie was called on to make some more of his powder. After an uninterrupted la- bour of six weeks, lie madle hiN will, distilled for himself a pint of laurel water, drank it, aiid died in half an hour, at thc age of 26, a martyr to a delusion that, even were it to be realized, woultl have no value, nor be of any utility. lie was a man of great talents, but of greater ambitien, and ained at the reputationi of the greatest ge. ntis of the age. He was possessedl of censiderable property, but wrecked his happiness and lost his life by beiny so crrdiulous as to belibve the assertions of the alchymists. PtIOSPv O RPSCcNCe aoF TH4E OCEAN.--Poura little plios- phuretted ether on a lum up of sugar aind drop it into a glass of tepiti water. In a dark place the surface o fthe water will become vesy soon luminous, and if it be moved by blowing gently with the mitouth, beautiful and brilliant undulations of the surfiace will be visible, ex- hibiting the appearance of liquid combustion. Those who cantiot see the ocean hi a flame, may adlopt this feeble mode of imitating it, and it wil) serve to give them a faint idea of a phetiotnenon which has called forthi the aldniration of all who have ever seen It..-C,'emiyt. GRANwTIHAMr BuEas.--'The folloving advertisement ap- pears in the Stainford illerrury:t-" The Blues gan shoot, course, and fish over the adjoining mranors of Grantharn, Manthorpe and Little Gonerby, Siittleghte, Houghton, Walton and Sonierby. The Blues can have the choice, in Grantliam parish, of more than 10 houses, all in excellent repair, and of rnore tinn 150 closes The Blues can all have work at Grantham or Buckniitister. The Blues setting at Bickirmhister. or near it, can keep cows in the four large rich pastures called the. Granges, appropriated to that use only, and capable of keeDing 70 cows." RoBaEaY OF TIIE BRUbKINGHrAs COAci.-One of the provincial notes taken out of the banker's parcel which was stolen from the Buckingham coach, was presented at the bankers' and paid before notice of the robbery had been received. Since that time a comnmon maneeuvre has been tried. A letter, tvith the Cambridge post-mark, has been sernt to the bankers, proposing to return the parcel, on condition of receiving, as a remuneration for trouble, the sum of 500.. The mode in which the robberv was effected has been hitherto rather incorrectly stated. The bac'k of the box (an oak board, three.quarters of an ineh thick) iR which the parcel had been deposited, under tie coachmain's seat, 6had been nicely taken out be. fore the coach had sttarted from Banbelry. 'The actual robbery was, probably, not comnoleted until the coach stopped at the Green Atan and Still, in Oxfaord.atrct. The coachman alightetl there, and Stayed several minutes to arrange some business. On his return to the coach, lie missed two of the outside pasengers, who had sat smeatl behind him, and found on a seat a great coat which y acca rv n d c hgihl, a had bei eft bY one of them, who leaned forward on account oo a violent headaeche when heo arrived in London, This coat hung over the back of the coach-box, and Concealed a cut which was aftcrwWaTds perceived to have been made tohroughn the lea- the'r. The rovbery was not dispcovered till rie coachman, on his arrival at thse Bel and Crown, in Hofborn, unlocked the box under his seat, to seek for the parcel in question. The robbery hi, on god aroundo, suliposed to have been, long premeditated, andl cir- cumstances, which~ it might defeat the end, of justice to publish, are now likely to lead to the detection tf the partite by whom it was perpetratedl and. planined.-Becks Chronicle. A stne'in ar occurreince has, daring the last week, taken place at Kutridge, near Celnt e thie tunnel of the peeds and oiver. pool canal, which there passes tinder a high,hill, has beemiso far cdn- tracted in depth, bY the rising of the bottom, (whicl ha behvth forced up from some cause not yet ascertained), as to prevent all vessels Passing w'hich draw more than three feet four inches '.vater. Several stones hiave also fallen from the cop of the arch: some apprehensions, have of' course been entertained for the safety of this stupendous work, whichl cost immense sumis of money ; but thie persons most likely to form a correct iudgment on the subject tlo not anticipate anY further mnischief, Preparations are making for the immediate and effectual repair of it, and the water will be drawn off in the course ofnext week. Ve are infotmed that the repair will occasslon no materia,l interruption to the transit of goods by the ca1nal, as ar- rangemmients will be made for carting the goods over the tunnel.... Leeds Afercury. Married, on Thursday last, Mr. Joseph lVootd, bob- bin-maker, to widow Ottewell, both of this towN. The venmerable pair had presented themselves the day before at the alter, but on taking stock in the chr'stenizsg..ew, iappea red that their united en.. Eital amounted only to one shilin, o which sum the bride coneri.. buted five-sixths. This Inability topay the fees delayed the wished.. for consumnmation till the following day, when the inhiabitants of' -the Bank, where the parties reside, raised a subscription and sent tdiem to chiurch In a coach, the drive'r sporting a whbite favour. After the ceremvonv, the bridal party returned to their carcriage, smoking to. bacco ; but,' in the hilarity of their hearts, they forgot to take up the bride, who, waa obliged to hobble home, to the no smiall amnuse. ment of a vast number of spectators.-..Lce,dg Mercuzry. [Advertisement.1We tise informed that Lady Scarborough, who became! entitled! upon the death of hor sister, the Honourable Airs. Langley, to the rents then due, of' the extensive estates of the late lion. Aiharniaduke Langley, in the North and East iding of the county of York, on receiving those rents, very handsomely dlirected Mhr. Rivis, her steward, to inake a return of 2 e e..t each of the tenants; the same hayingbe,frsmti,thcu. tenatry illcontnue o nece ith he amei flatterin encourage..