Preservative against the Yellow-Fever.-A PHILANTHROPIC person has addressed a letter, written in sober earnestness, to the superior political chief of the province of Arragon, on the subject of the yellow-fever which devastates part of that province, recommending the use of a mixture of thirty-five drops of nitric acid and twelve ounces of spring water, as an infallible preservative against that formidable malady. The quantity of the diluted acid to be taken for that purpose, is two ounces three times a-day.-El Universel, October 3d. Spanish Apothecaries.-A SINGULAR retrospective decree of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Madrid, has lately been issued, by which every person practising pharmacy or keeping a chemist's shop, who has not reached the age of twenty-five years, is enjoined to attend courses of lectures at the Royal College up to that age, with a view to his being re-examined previously to obtaining a fresh licence to practise. "Ecole Physico-Pathologique."-A.PROPOS of Dr. BROUSSAIS. Our readers will not be displeased to see in what estimation the theory and practice of this professor are held by some of his brethren in Paris. We copy the following jeu.d'esprit from a highly respectable Journal of July last. Those who have read the very able exposition of Dr. Broussais' system in Dr. James Johnson's Review, and our own feeble endeavours to set a real value on the doctrine of this foreign professor in the Medical and Physical Journal of last month, will easily comprehend the drift of the following translation in reference to one who contends that all complaints arise from the stomach, and that lemonade and leeches are to cure every complaint. "A distinguished man of letters, who is publishing a new edition of MOLIERE, aware of the ridiculous appearance of some modern physicians, has determined to make some variations in the celebrated scene of the comedy of that author, entitled "Le Malade Imaginaire." The following is a specimen: Toinette (dressed as a physician.) Let me feel your pulse.--Come, come, beat as you ought. Ah! I'll soon make you go right. Faith! this pulse is mightily impertinent. I see plainly it does not know whom it has to deal with. Who is your attending physician, sir? Argan. Monsieur Purgon. Toin. That name is not to be found in my pocket-book, amongst the physicians of eminence. What did he say was the matter with you? Arg. He says my liver is affected: others contend that it is the spleen. Toin. Pooh pooh! They are a pack of ignoramus. It is your stomach, sir, that is affected. Arg. The stomach? Toin. Yes! the stomach. What do you feel? Arg. I have occasionally the head-ach. Toin. Exactly so. The stomach. Arg. I sometimes see double;-I have a veil over my eyes. Toin. The stomach! Arg. And a great difficulty in breathing. Toin. The stomach again! Arg. I suffer from great langour and lassitude in all my limbs. Arg. And I now and then feel pain in my feet, in my heels, and toes, as if I had the gout. Toin. Exactly so. It is the stomach! You cat with good appetite? Arg. Yes, sir. Toin. The stomach! You like to drink a small quantity of wine. Arg. Yes, sir. Toin. The stomach! You feel rather drowsy after dinner, and delight in taking a nap? Arg. Oh yes, sir. Toin. The stomach--the stomach, I tell you! What has your phy.. sician desired you to eat? Arg. He desired me to take some soup. Toin. Ontologist! # Arg. And chicken. Toin. Fatalist! Arg. And occasionally veal. Toin. Incendiary! Arg. Broth. Toin. Murderer! Arg. Some fresh eggs. Toin. What an assassin! Arg. And stewed prunes in the evening. Toin. Incendiary, and murderous diet of the ontologistic school! Arg. And, above all, he desired me to put water to my wine. Toin. Ignorantus, ignoranta, ignorantum! This is not the way of a medecin physiologiste. You must drink pure water, which is indeed too nourishing as it is: it will calm the gastro-intestinal irritation under which you labour; and thin your blood, which is now too dense. You'll apply five hundred leeches to the pit of the stomach, which will remove the gastro-enteritis in the twinkling of an eye. Don't you see that "irritation is preying heavily on the mucous mem brane of your stomach, from whence it extends its malignant power over all the organs of your economy, through sympathetic irradiations :"+ Be assured that your physician is an ontologist, who will believe only what he sees. I will come again to see you in a fortnight, if you are alive; and, above all, rest assured that, if I have abused * An appellation of contempt adopted by Dr. Broussais, to designate all those physicians who seem to have identified or personified the different causes producing diseases,-such as the gouty principle, the scrofulous humour, &c. This is not a parody, but the real language, of Dr. Broussais, repeatedly met with in his work on Phlegmasia, and the "Examen des Doctrines Medicales," which we reviewed in our last Number. 4 Day of Month. my brethren of the profession, it was not through envy, but for the good of mankind. How superior to them all the doctrine physiologique makes me!-a doctrine which is destined to do more good even than the immortal discovery of Jenner.* This is verbatim the manifesto of Dr. Broussais. "Ma doctrine doit avoir prochainement sur la population une influence plus marquée que la découverte de la vaccine," Risum teneatis Pisoni! METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. By Messrs. WILLIAM HARRIS and Co. 50, Holborn, London. From September 20 to October 19, inclusive. 12345678 57 63 49 53 62 50 .15 54 65 52 A 31 58 65 44 48 6149 54 60 55 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 29.85 29.91 5160 19 11.10 54645129.77 29.65 5561 SE The quantity of rain fallen in the month of September, NE W Rain Cloud. SW Fine Cloud. MONTHLY CATALOGUE OF MEDICAL BOOKS. The London Dissector; or, System of Dissections practised in the Hospitals and Lecture-rooms of the Metropolis: comprising a Description of the Muscles, Vessels, Nerves, and Viscera, of the Human Body; with Directions for their Demonstration. Sixth edition. Clarke on the Diseases of Females. Part II. A Treatise on Acupuncturation; being a Description of a Surgical Operation, originally peculiar to the Japanese and Chinese, and by them denominated ZinKing, now introduced into European Practice; with Directions for its Performance, and Cases illustrating its Success. By J. M. Churchill. Observations on those Diseases of Females which are attended by Discharges. By Charles Mansfield Clarke, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Lecturer on Midwifery in London. Part II. 15s. boards. [HIGHLEY, FLEET-STREET.] NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. The case of traumatic tetanus, from Quebec, has been received, and will be inserted in ̧ the next Number. We beg Messrs. MERCIER and PARANT to accept our thanks for it. The important papers communicated to us from Dr. RASORI will receive an early and due consideration. They will afford another of the numerous illustrations of the quackery of a continental physician, who has dubbed himself" chef de l'Ecole PhysioPathologique." Dr. H. must really pardon us; but we cannot, and are determined not to admit statements of cures in cases that are said to have proved rebels to the regular administration of remedial agents by other practitioners, unless the mode of treatment which is asserted to have proved successful at last, be detailed at the same time. He verges on the borders of quackery who pursues a different course. Numerous books have reached us for review. We will endeavour to introduce them to the acquaintance of our readers in regular succession. No other distinction shall be made as to precedency, except between infrinsic worth and a mere gaudy exterior,-between solid materials and the tinselled ornaments that shine with a false lustre. What care we for the wrath of LONDINENSIS? As long as we conscientiously discharge our duty, and study to merit the approbation of the good, we need not feel hurt at the obloquy of the few. LONDINENSIS has taken care to add M.C.s. to his assumed appellation. We think he might, with more propriety, have suppressed the two first letters, and substituted the conjunction as in their place. There would then have been a more natural connexion between his honorary initials and his real name. H. L. need not be at the trouble of disguising his hand. through life, he will never be otherwise than a-nonymous. We venture to predict that, We give full credit to Mr. WALLIS for his anxiety to establish a proper discriminating mark in cases requiring venous depletion; but we must decline admitting a suppositions case in illustration of his doctrine. We shall be happy to receive something more practical from that gentleman. Our attention has been earnestly called to the shameful practice of certain pedlarvaccinators, who, with an empty purse in one hand, and a blazoned diploma, on which the Jennerian name is shamefully prostituted, in the other, wander about the country, and impose on the credulity of the humane and the charitable. We had hoped that the very able manner in which these vaccine swindlers had been exposed by Mr. RING, would have rendered any further notice of them, on our part, unnecessary. We have, however, been lately put in possession of documents, which, unless these abuses be speedily reformed, we shall deem it our duty to lay before the authorities delegated to watch over the public health, in order that proper measures may be adopted to put an end to so disgraceful a traffic. We beg to state, by way of a gentle hint to the promoters of bastard Institutions for the pretended propagation of vaccine, to whom the majority of failures seem due, that we have taken a legal opinion on the subject, and that we find all such pedlar-vaccinators to come within the scope of the "Vagrant-Aot." The very respectable practitioner at Chelmsford, who has furnished us with the information upon which we have descanted, is entitled to the most grateful acknowledgments of the profession and the public. If "a Pupil to a Lecturer on Midwifery" can authenticate his statement, we pledge ourselves to lay it before the public. Dr. PARKEMAN's communication from New-York has not been noticed before, through mere inadvertence. That gentleman informs us, that the trade of slander among the medical profession in America thrives with as much success as in the Old World. In a late trial before the supreme judicial court at New York, a Dr. Niles obtained a verdict of damages, to the amount of 600 dollars, as a compensation for having been called a 66 Sangrado licentiate." We have received the pamphlet intitled "Thoughts on the Establishment of Public Baths." We fully agree with the writer as to the importance of the measure he proposes; and we trust that his project will, at no very distant period, be carried into execution. Something, however, in a more tangible shape than a mere address should be brought forward; and we will cheerfully give it whatever support may be derived from the recommendation of the Medical and Physical Journal. We regret much that Mr. SMERDON's valuable paper reached us after the department for Original Communications was completely filled." It shall appear in our next without fail. The same apology must serve us with Mr. YATEMAN, whose reply to "an Old Practitioner" shall certainly appear in our next. A" CONSTANT READER," from Manchester, is desirous of knowing whether ang of his medical brethren have met with the very extraordinary occurrence of “people about the middle period of life" losing their hair with scurfy desquamation, and without any known cause. Our Correspondent does not go the length of puffing the Russia eil in such cases; but it is evident that he would have done so, had he either been bald enough, or we less long-pated. We trust his next communication will bear the stamp of "paid" upon it. Mr. B. HUTCHINSON, whose case of tic douloureux, cured by carbonate of iron, was already printed and inserted in the first part of the present Number, when his letter of the 23d ultimo reached us, is anxious that we should announce that the patient “has since suffered from a trifling relapse." This fresh mark of candour is peculiarly creditable to Mr. B. HUTCHINSON. We are anxious to express our warmest acknowledgments to our Madrid Correspondent, for the readiness with which he has transmitted to us the first volume of the Decadas Medico Quirurgicas. We shall not fail to make extracts from it in our next Numbers. Dr. HANNAY's communication, from Liverpool, arrived too late for the present Number. ERRATA IN LAST NUMBER. 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