B. Spong. uft. 3ij.---pulv. g. arab. Zij.

Pulv. cinnam. 3fs.--syrup. fimp. q. s. ut ft. trochis. xxiv.

One to be taken two or three times a day. No more fyrup is to be added than is abfolutely neceffary: it is to be addeď flowly, and beat well. The troches are to be dried before a fire on a plate flightly oiled, and are to be kept in a bottle for use.

Mr. Ring, without pretending to determine how this medicine acts, afferts "that he has cured a confiderable number of perfons of the bronchocele by this remedy, fome of whom began to fuffer much, and to be seriously alarmed, on account of the difficulty of deglutition and refpiration, with which their complaints were at that time attended."

This medicine has been long used in this disorder, yet without any great fuccefs. Mr. Ring thinks it proceeds from the difference of the quantity, or of the mode, in which it is given.

From the very high character given of it, it must be confidered as highly worthy the attention of practitioners; and we would particularly recommend it to the physicians on the Mohawk river, and at Pittsburgh, where this disease prevails fo greatly, to ascertain more completely the estimation in which it fhould be held.

Mr. Ring fays the dofe is one fcruple of the sponge in each troche; yet it is evidently two fcruples, as there are twentyfour scruples in each ounce.

This medicine has been likewise highly extolled by Dr. Erdman, in all forts of glandular diseases: his prescription is as follows. fpong. uft. 3fs. facch. alb. 31fs. m. f. pulv. s.; a tea-fpoonful to be taken dry early in the morning and evening.

From a theory adopted by Dr. Erdman, he was led to employ the spongia usta in hooping cough. The disease diminished by degrees and was entirely removed by the fole use of that remedy, except in cafes where an hectic fever had already taken place.

It is faid to be an almost infallible remedy in chronic hoarsenefs, particularly when caufed by a catarrhous matter, which is depofited on the glandules of the larynx and trachea.

In metaftafes on the glands, occafioned by the measles and the fcarlet fever, it was found very ferviceable.

In the rickets alfo, it was ufed with advantage, combined with different aromata, cortex cinnamomi, aurant. caryophyll. &c.

Obftinate cardialgies are, in some cases, fuppofed by Dr Erdman, owing to obftruction or schirrus of the pancreas; conformably to which idea the spong. uft. was given with great fuccefs, in doses of a fcruple or half a drachm daily. Several cafes of the most inveterate cardialgy were cured by it, which had refifted the whole series of antifpafmodic remedies. The doctor adds that no ill confequence arofe from its application. Ibid.

Dr. Moodie of Bath has ufed, with the greatest fuccefs, the aqua kali puri (olim lixivium faponarium), in the cafe of a woman who had been bitten by a viper, and who was apparently in a dying condition. A tea-fpoonful was at first administered in water, every three or four hours, and afterwards every fix hours: fhe was relieved immediately after the first dofe, and in four days was perfectly restored to health. The doctor further obferves, that when perfons are bitten by animals whose venom is highly deleterious, the progress of the disorder may be stopped, and the perfon faved, by the speedy administration of the lixivium faponarium. Hence alfo, if any of the strong mineral acids fhould fall on any part of the body, the immediate application of this fubftance will prevent them from doing any further mischief. Or, if a perfon fhould accidentally fwallow any of the mineral acids, or hydrargyrus muriatus, or any other corroding falt, which an alkali will decompofe, a fpeedy exhibition of a folution of the alkaline falts, in proper dofes, affords the most likely means of relief, and of preventing fatal effects. Month. Mag.

Bedford
Berks
Buckingham
Cambridge
Chefter

Cornwal Cumberland Derby Devon

Dorfet

Durham

Effex

Gloucester
Hereford
Hertford
Huntingdon
Kent
Lancafter
Leicester
Lincoln

Middlesex

London and
Westminster
Monmouth

Norfolk

Northampton
Northumberland
Nottingham
Oxford

Rutland

Salop
Somerset

13,816 63,393, 16,921 109,215 21,380 107,444 11,988| 89,349 67,447 191,751 24,870 188,269 18,387 117,230 39,516 161,142 60,844 343,001 22,259 115,319 25,208 160,361 25,283 226,437 49,645 250,809 8,558 89,191 12,861 97.577

11,888 13,980 30,523 32,870 18,766
20,573 23,416 52,821 56,394 58,155
20,443 23,384 52,094 55,350 25,083
16,139 19,262 44,081 45,265 28,054
34,482 37,613 92,759 98,992 38,823
32,906 39,040 89,868, 98,401 42,687
21,573 25,893 54,377 62,853 21,062
31,822 33,660 79,401 81,746 31,743
57,955 72,559 157,240 185,761 96,208
21,437 24,142 53,667 61,652 28,204
27,195 38,109 74,770 85,591 18,217
38,371 46,784 111,356 115,081 65,174
46,457 55,133 117,180 133,629 49,420
17,003 18,822 43.955 45,236 31,261
17,681 20,092 48,063 49,514 20,611
6,841 8,150 18,521 19,047 9,536 4,484 37,568
51,585 65,967 151,374 156,250 54,124 43,253 307,624
114,270 132,147 322,356 350,375 52,018 269,259 672,731
25,992 27,967 63,943 66,138 23,823 42,036 130,081
41,395 42,629 102,445 106,11260,584 24,263 208,557
77,712 130,742 240,958,294,371 13,078 89,499 535,329
112,912 199,854 373,655 444,474 13,417 162,260 818,129
8,948 9,903 22,173 23,409 12,871
47,617 57,930 129,842 143,529 61,791
26,665 29,361 63,417 68,340 29,303
26,518 35,503 73,357 83,744 23,190
25,611 30,081|| 68,558 71,792 23,904
20,599 23,750 53,786 55,834 33,109 16,346 109,620
3,274 3,563 7,978 8,378 3,995 1,923 16,356
31,182 34,501 82,563 85 076 45,046 35,5 35 167,639
48,048 57,013|126,927|146,823 61,434 54,053273,750

5,540 45,582 38,181 273,371| 31,426 131,757 25,738 157,101 35,513 140,350

In the original Tables are given the houses, perfons and their occupations, in each parish, township, or extra-parochial place of the county. The total of cach county is alone introduced here. The remainder will be given as it is received.

MR

R. Aftley Cooper has lately presented to the world, one of the most splendid furgical works that has ever been publifhed. The work is a large imperial folio, entitled "The Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Inguinal and Congenital Hernia" and is illuftrated with eleven plates judiciously felected and elegantly and correctly executed.

In the eleventh chapter, which is devoted to the treatment of a mortified inteftine, we find among other valuable and interesting matter the following obfervations.

"When the whole cylinder of the inteftine is mortified, it is neceffary to proceed very differently. Then the mortified part of the intestine should be cut away, and the ends are to be brought in contact and confined by means of four liga

tures.

"As far as a judgment can be formed from experiments made upon animals, it will be seen that this operation is in them both fafe and effectual; for I have made the experiment of dividing the intestine and afterwards fewing its extremities together, and was pleased to find it fucceed." The following experiments are then related. "Experiment ift. The abdomen of a dog being opened, one of the small intestines was divided; a cylinder of ifinglafs was then introduced into the bowel, and three futures were made upon it: one at the part at which it joins with the mefentery, and the other two on each fide of the inteftine. In three days the animal had regular ftools. On the fixteenth day he was killed, and the united portion of the intestine was shown to the students.

"Experiment 2d. It appeared in the foregoing experiment that the animal derived no advantage from the cylinder of ifinglafs, as it became fhut by the contraction of the inteftine. I therefore divided the inteftine of another dog, and fewed it with three threads, without including the ifinglafs. On the fecond day the dog took food, on the third appeared playful, on the fifth I pulled the ligatures away; after which he fuffered nothing from the experiment."

"In both these experiments the inteftine was returned into the abdomen, where it rested against the wound in the parietes ; and the ligatures were left hanging externally. But my friend Mr. Thomson, lecturer in furgery at Edinburgh, made these experiments in a different manner, and their refult is fo curious as to deferve attention.

Experiment ift. Affifted by his friends Drs. Farre and Jones, he divided the inteftine of a dog. The cut edges were fewn together, first by an interrupted future going round the cylinder of the intestine, and then four other ftitches were introduced at nearly equal distances from each other. The ligatures being cut clofe to the inteftine he returned it into the abdomen, and fewed the external incifion. No fwelling or tenfion fucceeded. The dog was killed on the tenth day. On opening the abdomen he found a portion of intestine, thickened and more vascular than usual, adhering to the parietes at the fite of the external wound; on flitting this up he could fee dictinctly on the infide, but not on the out, the place at which the inteftine had been divided. Three of the ligatures had difappeared, but the place of their former attachment could be diftinctly feen on the inner and thickened furface of the wound. Two of the threads ftill remained adhering to the side of the wound. Pieafed to find that the ligatures had paffed from the outer to the inner fide of the intestine, and that they had been difcharged by ftool, he determined to repeat the experiment and to give a longer time to learn the refult of it more completely.

"Experiment 2d. In a full grown dog the first experiment was repeated, five ftitches only being put in the inteftine. The dog was killed at the end of fix weeks. On opening the abdomen he could fee no diftin&t mark of divifion in the intestinal canal; but upon cutting out a piece and inverting it, he found two stitches ftill adhering to its inner fide. He could alfo perceive, as in the former cafe, but less distinctly, the marks made by the stitches which had disappeared.