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was of a yellowish colour, andfilled with a fatty mass. On

making’ an incision through thetunica vaginalis the knife struckagainst a hard substance, which,on its being extracted and care-fully examined, was found to beone of the thigh bones, withoutthe periosteum ; it was an inchand -a half long. The testiclewas more accurately examined,and in it were-found many bonesconnected together by cellularmembrane, and muscular fibres,the pelvis which appeared to be-long to a fætus of about fourmonths, and a foot consistin- ofskin, muscle, and bone. On thesides of the pelvis were the ossailii, with the linea semi-circu-laris. Under the latter was ob-served theedg eofthe acetabulum,which has here a triangularshape. The ligamentum tereswas wanting. The promontoryof the os sacrum, and its articu-hting surface connecting it withthe last lumbar vertebra weredistinctly seen.

In the middle of the pelviswas a stringy substance, shapedlike a mulberry, one inch long,and one third of an inch broad,which appeared to be the em-bryo of the lumbar vertebrse.In the right acetabalum wasan os femoris without, peri-osteum, and more Pat thanround. The neck of this bonewas wanting ; but under itshead were some bony concre-

tions, sufficiently formed to berecognized as the trochaster ma-jor, trochaster minor. At theinferior part of the os fem-oris were the inner and outercondyles, and the tuberosities ofboth condyles were -visible. At

the left part of the pelvis the,pubis ischium were whollywant-ing, but the crista of the iliumwas well formed. The innersurface of the ischium was con-cave, the outer convex. Underthe semicircular line a thighbone, ; of an inch long, took itsorigin, which at its inferior ex-tremity was reflected towardsthe knee, where there was a

marked protuberance. The tibiaand fibula might be plainly seen,and the interopeous ligamentwas strong-er than it usually isin the fætus. The foot was ofa cartilaginous structure; the toeswere not developed, and it wasa.little turned back at the point.The posterior part of the pelviswas bent. At the superior partof the os sacrum some of theprocesses and sibacious glandsmight be discerned. - Journalde2- Chirurgie von Grafe und Wal-lIler.

Case of an Idiot, who eat a largequantify of the berries of theAtroda Belladonna, without

any serious consequences. —

Communicated by Dr. BODEN-MULLER, Physician to the

Royal Eye Infirmary, at Wur-temberg.John Zunderer, of Frotin-

heim, twenty-one years of age,who has been idiotic from hisearliest years, but in other re-

spects sound, on the evening-of the 6th September eat aboutthirty bunches of the berries ofthe deadly nightshade (atropabelladonna) which were larbeand quite ripe. When he had

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satisfied himself he went - home,eat a large portion of milk por-ridge with great appetite, andfelt no complaint. Accordingto his own account, he was sen-sible of some increase of animalspirits. He went to bed a, hisusual hour, but could not sleep ;he complained of a dryness inthe throat, and asked for some-thing to drink. A pot of beerwas given him, which he im-mediately drank. - On wak-

ing at seven o’clock in the

morning of the 7th of Septem-ber, he felt a swimming in thehead and confused vision. Hisbelly was swelled. the pupils ofthe eyes. much dilated, his pulsesmall and nuttering. The prac-titioner, who was called to him,at ten o’clock, found him in thesame situation, without deliriumor convulsions. He ordered hima quantity of milk, fresh fromthe cow, which produced vomit-ing- as soon as the man drank it,and he recovered. From theenormous quantity of the poisonwhich was thrown up, it wasconcluded’that-the stomach wascleared, and nothing- more wasordered for him but a little winewhey. Three days after, theman had no other complaint, ex-cept a slight dilatation of thepupils. Idem.

Use of Gold in the Tt’eatment ofSyphilis.

It is already known that Pro-fessor Lallemand has employedthe murias aurico-natricum,(mu-riate of gold and soda), withgreat success, both in recentand old cases of syphilis,-espo--cially iri those constitutions

where mercury proves injurious.He desires his patients to rub iton the tongue ,gums and inside ofthe mouth. Thequantityisatfirstthe fifteenth part of a grain,which is increased up to thesixth part of a grain. Six oreight applications generally curethe disease. The gums are notaffected as by the use of mercury,and the symptoms of the diseasevery speedily disappear.

Doctor Alfort, the Swedishphysician uses the murias aurico-natricum, internally for the cureof chancres and buboes. Idem.

Dr. Michaelis of Berlin statesin the last number of Drs. Grafeand Walther’s Journal, that hehas tried the cubebs of whichsuch tlattering accounts had beentransmitted from Eng’land in a

great number of cases of gonorr-hœa, fiuor albus, and chronicaffections of the lungs, withoutthe slightest benefit except,in -asingle case of recent gonorhcea.

A short Account of an extraor-

dinary Pathological Case, by Dr.G.C. Fenoglio.

FROM AMADEI’S ANNALI UNI-VERSALI DI MEDICINA.

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About four years ago, I hap-pened to be in the house of Pro-fessor Rossi, of the Royal Acade-my of Turin, when a patient af-flicted with a singular diseasecame to consult him. It arosefrom a whistling noise in theheart, as we then thought,which might be distinctly heard,and which, though extremelytroublesome to the patient, wasnot at first attended with. pain.

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This.whistling was so loud, thatit could be heard at the distanceof some feet, and the patient,Signor R. assured us, that whenhe was attending his religiousduties, this noise frequently at-tracted the notice of persons whowere standing near him atchurch.

Professor Rossi determinedin the first instance to ascertainwhether the whistling’ was real,.and accordingly,he made the pa-tient strip himself to the skin, inordertodetermine,ifthewhistlingwas not pretended, whether itarose from a dc.ect of the respira-tion, or of the circulation of theblood, since it was evident that itproceeded from the left cavity ofthe breast.With this view, he’ be an to

try the patient by percussion,but it was evident, from his fullinspirations, that nothing- iniped-ed the distension of the lungs,and that there was no effusionin the cavity of the chest. The

pulse, however, did uot indicatea free circulation, since the dias-tole corresponded to the whist-ling’, and- was very strong, butthe systole, on the contrary, wasweak.On examining the circulation

in the carotid, and femoral arte-ries, we observed that the sys-tole was weak in the former,and stronger in the latter, whichcircumstance enabled us to cal-culate, at the sun-e -time, the

intensity of the producing or ex-citing power, and of the react-ing force of the arteries.The seat of the whistling was

in the left cavity of the breast.It could not be supposed to arisefrom any organic defect, and

as there were- no symptoms in-dicating anearismal dilatationeither in the cavity of the heart,or in the aorta and pulmonaryarteries, nor any which indicatedthe presence of polypi in the

cavity-,Professcr Rossi concludedthat it arose from one of the fol-

lowing causes. Either becausethe blood continued to passfrom the left ventricle into theaorta, during the diastole of theheart, and then upon the returnof the systole, was impelledwith force from that ventricleinto the aorta ; or secondly,because the blood in passingfrom the ventricle into theaorta, met with some resistance,the overcoming- of which pro-duced the whistling. He con-cluded therefore that the causeof the whistling existed at thecommencement of the aorta. Headvised the patient to follow

scrupulously a certain regimen,calculated to protract the tin-favourable results, which couldnot fail however sooner or laterto ensue.The patient was a man of

moderate stature, well formed inevery respect, cheerful in dis-position, and immoderately ad-dicted to wine. He. attributedhis disease to a fit of passion,when he was suddenly seizedwith this whistling’ of the heart,which never afterwards lefthim.

This man died shortly afterwith symptoms of dropsy,brought cn by repeated excessesin drinking. On examinationof the body after death, by Doc-tor N. it was found that thevalves at the commencement ofthe aorta were schirrous. Do-

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tor N. has promised to transmitthe’details of this examinationto Signor Rossi.

Whenever the details of thepost mortem examination of thisvery interesting case may be

given in the Italian journals, weshall not fail to communicatethem immediately to our readers.

Eo.

CHESS PROBLEMS.

In compliance with the re-

quest of V. we insert the solu-tion of No. 6 in the, series ofChess Problems. His sugges-tion is under consideration.

1. W. Rook, at his queen’sbishop’s fourth square, to the

queen’s fourth square.

B. King to queen’s knight’ssquare.

’ 2. W. Rook to adverse queen’ssquare, giving check.

B. King to queen’s rook’s se-cond square.

3. W. Knight to adversequeen’s knight’s fourth square,giving check.

B. King to queen’s rook’sthird square.

4. W. Rook to queen’s thirdsquare. (This is the coup derepos alluded to in the prelimin-ary rernarks.)

B. King to queen’s rook’sfourth square.

5. W. Rook to queen’s rook’sthird square.

B. King to adverse queen’sknight’s fourth square.,

6. W. Pawn one square, g’iv-ing check-mate.

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