Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1860-05-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FORGIVENESB.—As we do not keep tinder in every box in the house, so we do not keep the sense of anger in every faculty. When one comes against the door of some faculties with an injury, we look over the railing and say,—" I'll forgive you for that, for you did not get in. But by and by, when the faculty where we are sensitive is entered, then we grind our teeth and say —"I could have forgiven him for anything but that We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of forgiveness until we have been touched to the quick where we are sensitive, and borne it meekly; and meekness is not mere white-faceclness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.—Henry Ward Beecher.  A New Sensauva.—The Journal de Chime -Victimle contains the following remarkable account of the discovery of a powerful sedative in cases of neuralgia by Dr. Field :—Some time ago that gentleman was induced by a homceopath to put two drops of a solution, aupposed to be diluted to the first degree, on his toegue, in order to try its effect. After the lapse of about three minutes he felt a sensation of constriction at the base of the neck, then violent singing in the ear, while his forehead became covered with abundant perspiration. He then was seized with uncontrollable fits of yawning, and remained senseless for several minutes; his head fell back, his lower jaw sank down powerless, he became extremely pale, and for two minutes his pulse was silent. The homceopath, perceiving these symptoms, was terrified, thinking he bad unconsciously committed a murder. Stimulants, however, brought Dr. Field to consciousness again, but he continued to feel a headache for half-anhour after, with a sensation of pressure at the epigastrium, and general weakness. These symptoms disappeared in the course of that time. It was evident that the substance employed was a powerful poison, and that it had not been sufficiently diluted; and it turned out to be nitrate of oxyde of glycile, a substance obtained by treating glycerine at a low temperature with sulphuric or nitric acid. One drop,•rnixed with 99 drops of spirits of wine, constitutes the first dilution. Dr. Field was immediately struck with the idea that he had experienced the effects of what, ins much weaker dose, must be a useful sedative of the nervous system, while the homeopath was overjoyed at having discovered what he conceived to be a powerful remedy for apoplexy. After various trials upon animals Dr. Field at length resolved to test this new remedy on patients. He did so first on a lady 68 years of age, who had long been suffering from neuralgia, which returned at intervals of three hours, and had resisted every remedy known, such as I ammonia, assafcetida, chloroform, Ire. The fourth part of a drop of the above solution being administered, she was at once relieved, but some of the symptoms ex• perienced by Dr. Field being felt by her also she discontinued the remedy, but her sufferings soon obliged her to have recourse to it again, and she was completely cured. It has since been tried in cases of headache and dental neuralgia with equal success.--Galignarsis Messenger.