tology. This is doubtless the description of was necessary to apply it a second time. . . an extreme case; the majority present them- The effects are immediate; a person in selves while the emissions are nocturnal,-whom the discharge has continued for months before, in fact, the disease has assumed its will have none for some days after the use of worst aspect; but it is of importance to be the caustic." Another writes thus: "I have aware that the seminal fluid may pass away carefully noted twenty-seven cases treated by with the urine, and that it is not to be con- the nitrate of silver. . . . Of these, thirteen cluded, in a suspicious case, that spermator- were completely cured, eight so much benefitrhoea does not exist, because a nocturnal ted that the emissions only recurred occasionemission has not occurred for a long time. ally, and produced but little effect upon the The tendency of every case of morbid noc- system; the remaining five were benefitted, turnal emissions, if unchecked, is to become but not to the same extent." A third surgeon diurnal. The nocturnal discharges cease for states that with regard to Lallemand's method the plain reason that the semen is removed of cauterising the urethra, he has tried it in a continuously in the evacuations of the blad-dozen cases, and in the majority of them with der and rectum.

Causes.

decidedly good effects. Mr. Phillips, in the paper before alluded to, thus speaks of the It has been the custom with most writers, caustic bougie:-"In nineteen cases I used from the time of Hippocrates downwards, to the caustic. Of these cases ten were comattribute seminal pollutions in all cases to pletely relieved by a single application; in previous abuse of the sexual powers. More three the amelioration was decided, though recent investigations have determined that, the complaint was not cured; in six there although such indulgence is the more com- was no relief. In the nine cases in which the mon cause, there are other circumstances first application was insufficient, the remedy capable of inducing the disease, independent- was again used,-in three cases with comly of any blame on the part of the patient. plete relief." So that "in thirteen cases out It is well known that some individuals of nineteen it succeeded, in six it failed; but support with impunity a degree of sexual in no case was there any aggravation." It irregularity which inevitably plunges another appears, then, from these remarks, that of into the miserable condition in question. fifty-eight cases, exclusive of those of LalleWe must, therefore, admit in the case of mand, in which caustic was applied, it failed spermatorrhea, as in other diseases, the ex-only in six, was beneficial in fourteen, and istence of predisposition. completely successful in thirty-seven, or twoThe application of lunar caustic to the ure-thirds of the whole, a result sufficient to esthra in cases of spermatorrhoea was first the tablish its character as a remedy of the utsuggestion of Lallemand; for although Sir E. most value. Home had previously cauterised the canal, it was with the object of overcoming a stricture, Lallemand prefers, in all cases, the application of the solid nitrate, but it may likewise be used with benefit in the form of solution. In the hands of the French surgeon the success of this mode of treating involuntary emissions has been most remarkable. Nearly one hundred cases are reported in which it was adopted by him, and in all, with very few exceptions, its effects have been rapid, and, where the patient has been commonly prudent subsequent to the treatment, perma-ges forms but a small part of the cure. The nent. The experience of British surgeons, story of the subsequent suffering and death though not so extensive, is as far as it goes, of many of these patients from disease of equally satisfactory. In an excellent critique these organs, and from tubercular disease upon Lallemand's works, in the "British

Physicians of much experience will recognise in this practice an old acquaintance, and will see the fallacy of the great majority of these pretended cures; for they are nearly all cases of tubercular disease of the prostrate or less the organs gland, involvin· more

with which it is connected, and complicated with tubercular disease of the cerebellum, in which the checking of the seminal dischar

and Foreign Medical Review," are collected propagated from these to other organs, is the written testimony of several English prac-not yet, and for obvious reasons never will titioners. One gentleman writes as follows:- be told. We have seen and treated a great "I can recollect eleven cases in which I have

found Lallemand's treatment successful, and many such cases so well described by the auone in which it did not completely succeed.thor of the above article, many of which had In seven of the eleven cases a single applica-been nearly quacked to death with Lalletion of the caustic was sufficient; in four it mand's and other common remedies. In all

these cases the magnetic symptoms disclosed before very susceptible to its influence, can afterwards be put into the magnetic state by the mere exercise of the will of the magnetiser, and even at great distances from him.

tubercular disease of the prostrate gland, and cerebellum, and in many others it had been propagated from these organs to the cerebrum, stomach, intestines, and liver, and in others at last to the lungs.

There is besides a still more extraordinary phenomenon in regard to the power Besides the moral treatment in these cases of the will, for we find we can bring the of tuberculous habits, in which the natural true images of different persons from any inclinations are much stronger than they are part of the world into the room before clairin other persons, they should be put under voyants, in an instant of time, even persons the use of the remedies for tubercular disease, we never saw or heard of before, whether and should continue under the use of them un- dead or alive, when they will see and destil their healths are restored, and it is only in cribe them, with apparently the same acthe few cases, in which the urgent symptoms curacy they would if these persons were described in the above article, do not readily really before them, in their natural waking or aally yield to their influence, that Lal-state, and solves the mysteries displayed by lemand's, or any similar remedy should be a travelling magician at Cairo, as described used.

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The Power of the Human Will.

The following extract on this subject, is from the New Orleans Crescent.

in the following article, as well as those that are practised by the same gentry in this country.

"Lord Prudhoe and Major Felix being at Cairo last autumn, on their return from AbysExtraordinary Power of the Human Will-synia, where they picked up much of that inA long time ago we recollect hearing of some formation which has been worked up so well experiments performed by two ancient gradu-by Captain Bond Head in his life of Bruce, ates of Ecole Polytechnique. A drop of quick found the town in a state of extraordinary exsilver hermetically sealed in a small nut-shell citement, in consequence of the recent arrival covered with wax, and attached to a thread, on being held over a parcel of dimes placed in a straight line will move from one end of the silver to another, and its motion can be stopped by a mere effort of the will! this ball be held over a gold watch a rotary movement can be obtained, and the motion reversed by the action of the mind! We tried the experiment yesterday, and found it to be perfectly successful.

It was

in those parts of a celebrated magician, from the centre of Africa, somewhere in the vicinity of the Mountains of the Moon universally said, and generally believed, that this character possessed and exercised the power of showing to any visitor who chose to comply with his terms, any persons, dead or living, whom the same visitor pleased to name. The English travellers, after abundant inquiries, and some scruples, repaired to his residence, paid their fees, and were admitWe have been much pleased with a repe-ted to his sanctum. They found themselves tition of this experiment. Another extraor- in the presence of a very handsome young dinary example of the power of the human Moor, with a very long black beard, a crimson caftan, a snow white turban, eighteen inwill is that exercised by the magnetiser.ches high, blue trowsers and yellow slippers, From numerous experiments in mesmerism, about one-seventh of the adult population, and children generally under ten years, are supposed to be very susceptible to its influence, and these it is now ascertained can be easily put into the mesmeric or magnetic state, by the exercise of the will of the mag-round and round the altar for half an hour or netiser, without the use of manupulations, under certain favorable circumstances, and these are principally strict attention to the magnetiser or some other object, when he exercises his will upon them. Persons too, who have been once magnetised, although not

sitting cross-legged on a Turkey carpet, three feet square, with a cherry stalk in his mouth, a cup of coffee at his left elbow, a diamond hafted dagger in his girdle, and in his right hand a large volume, clasped with brazen clasps. On hearing their errand, he arose and kindled some spices on a sort of small altar in the middle of the room. He then walked

so, muttering words to them unintelligible; and having at length drawn three lines of chalk about the altar, and placed himself upright beside the flame, desired them to seek a seer, and he was ready to gratify them in all their desires. There were, in the old days, whole schools of magicians here in Europe, who could do nothing in this line without the intervention of a pure seer, to wit, a maiden's

eye. This African belongs to the same fra-signed, and the boy again answered. 'I see ternity-he made them understand that a red-haired Frank, with a short red jacket, nothing could be done unti' a virgin eye was placed at his disposal. He bade them go out in the streets of Cairo, and fetch up any child they fancied under ten years of age.

and white trowsers. He is standing by the sea-shore, and behind him there is a black man in a turban, holding a beautiful horse richly caparisoned.' 'God in heaven!' cried They did so; and after walking about for Felix. Nay,' the boy resumed, 'this is an half an hour, selected an Arab boy, not appa-odd Frank-he has turned round while you rently above eight, whom they found playing at are speaking, and, by Allah, he has but one marbles. They bribed him with a few half-arm! Upon this the major swooned away. pence, and took him with them to the studio of His brother lost his arm in the campaign of the African Roger Bacon. The child was much Ava!" frightened at the smoke and the smell, and the chatter and the muttering-but by and by he sucked his sugar candy, and recovered his tranquility, and the magician made him seat himself under a window-the only one that had not been darkened, and poured about a table-spoonful of some black liquid into the boy's right hand and bade him hold the hand steady, and keep his eye fixed upon the surface of the liquid-and then resuming his old station by the brazier, sung out for several minutes on end,- What do you see? Allah bismillah what do you see? Illala Resoul Allah! What do you see? All the while the smoke curled faster and faster. Presently the lad said, Bismillah!' I see a horse-a horseman-I see two horsemen-I see three-I see four-five-six-I see seven horsemen, and the seventh is a Sultan. 'Has he a flag?' cries the magician?' He has three,' answer- their superior mental powers, give vent to ed the boy. Tis well,' says the other now their spleen by attempts to deceive those halt and with that he laid his stick right around them. One of the best examples of across the fire, and standing up addressed the

Mental Powers of Clairvoyants. There is apparently, as much difference in the mental powers of clairvoyants, as their is in these individuals in their natural waking state. There is also a great difference in the relative clearness of their visions, and in the same individuals at different times. Some again will see very clearly, and describe very accurately an hour or two, and then become weary or exhausted, when they will make mistakes, and little or no dependence can be placed upon any thing they say. They also sometimes become displeased, and aware of

travellers in these words:-Name your their extraordinary mental powers, is that dename-be it of those that are upon the earth, scribed in the following account of some phreor of those that are beneath it; be it Frank,nological experiments in Hartford, Conn., in January, 1842.

Moor, Turk, or Indian, prince or beggar, living and breathing, or resolved into the dust of Adam, 3000 years ago-speak, and this boy shall behold and describe.'

"The subject was an interesting married lady, of high intellectual cultivation, most respectably connected, and of unimpeachable integrity.

"The first name was William Shakspeare. The magician made three reverences toward the window, waved his wand nine times, sung "An eminent lawyer being introduced to out something beyond their interpretation, her, she began with him the discussion of and, at length called out, 'Boy, what do you some legal question, astonishing us by the behold - The Sultan alone remains,' said clearness of her conceptions, or keeping us in the child- and beside him I see a pale-faced a roar of laughter by the lively sallies of her Frank, but not dressed like these Franks with wit. During this conversation, some one belarge eyes, a pointed beard, a tall hat, roses hind her placed his hand near her head, withon his shoes, and a short mantle! The other out touching it. She instantly evinced emasked for Francis Arouet de Voltaire, and the barrassment, forgot the subject of discussion, boy immediately described a lean, old, yel- and could not go on until the hand was relow faced Frank, with a huge brown wig, a moved. The magnetiser then placed his hand nutmeg grater profile, spindle shanks, buc- upon her forehead, her recollection was rekled shoes, and a gold snuff box? Lord stored and the conversation renewed. The Prudhoe now named Archdeacon Wrang magnetiser then touched the organ of veneraham, and the Arab boy made answer, and tion, when she abruptly terminated the discussaid I perceive a tall, gray-haired Frank, sion, assuming an attitude of devotion, and with a black silk petticoat, walking in a gar- refused all farther communication with the den with a little book in his hand. He is physical world. Her devotions being ended, reading on the book-his eyes are bright and she was put in communication with a sciengleaming-bis teeth are white-he is the hap-tific gentleman, with whom she held a long piest looking Frank I ever beheld.' Major and interesting conversation on the subject of Felix now named a brother of his, who is in the cavalry of the East India Company, in the presidency of Madras. The magician

Animal Magnetism; boldly controverting his arguments and giving her own view of this extraordinary science with great clearness of

thought and beauty of expressio. And here shows and theatrical performances, on holishe seemed like an ethereal being-a being of days, in imitation of the Pagans and of the another creation-and in the language of the

1823.

eminent divine, to whose church she belongs, lesser mysteries, to amuse their audiences, "she appeared perfectly sublimated." After and these were continued, even in England, as this she astonished all by determining with late as the last part of the sixteenth century.— wonderful accuracy the phrenological charac-HONE'S ANCIENT MYSTERIES, &C., LONDON, ter of various individuals present, and describing with most minute exactness, their several diseases, acute or chronic, incipient or St. Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, in A. D. confirmed. A gentleman present was re- 412, in his VIIIth book against Julian, gravequested to sing and play a German song for her. The first note struck brought her to the ly observes: "These mysteries are so propiano, when during the prelude she persisted found and so exalted, that they can be comprein standing, but the instant he commenced the hended by those only who are enlightened. I song, she sat down by him, and with a full, shall not therefore attempt to speak of what is sweet voice, accompanied him in the very most admirable in them, lest by discovering words he sung, although in her natural state she has no knowledge of that language. She them to the uninitiated, I should offend against then accompanied a French gentleman in one the injunction not to give what is holy to the of the songs of his country, and afterward impure, not to cast pearls before such as canbegan again the German song, which the pianist had been requested to sing once more. During the performance of this she was demagnetised, and of course, discontinued her accompaniment. Being asked by the writer why she stopped, and if she would not still accompany the other voice, she replied that she knew neither the words nor the air."

These feats, in the somniscient state, of understanding and speaking in unknown

not estimate their worth."

Theodoret, Bishop of Cyzicus, in Syria, A. "The ImmuD. 420, in his dialoge, entitled, table" introduces Orthodoxus, speaking thus: "Answer me, if you please, in mystical and obscure terms, for, perhaps, there are persons present who are not initiated in the mysteries."

Quinine

tongues, or in a language unknown to these Cases successively treated with Sulphate of persons in the natural state, have been freBy C. SEARLE, M. D., M. R. C. S. L., Bath. quently repeated in this city. They were, Scarlatina.-I was requested by a lady, moreover, practised in the ancient Pagan Temples, and by the apostles of the Chris- twenty miles distant, to visit her family as tians. See Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2. soon as possible, as a son and daughter were dangerously ill with scarlet fever. I reached "Magnetism appears to have been well the place of her abode the same evening, understood by the Egyptian hierarchy, not when the son, I found, had died two hours only from some of the effects we find record-before. The daughter, a delicate girl, aged ed, but in one of the chambers (of the Tem-seventeen, ple) whose hieroglyphics are devoted to medical subjects, we find a priest in the very act of that mesmerism which is pretended to have been discovered a few years ago. The patient is seated in a chair, while the operator describes the mesmeric passes,* and an attendant waits behind to support the head when it is bowed in the mysterious sleep."DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, Oct. 1843. The higher orders of the Christian priesthood continued to be initiated into the mysteries taught in the temples, long after the Christian era; and this was a matter of great importance, for it was necessary for them to get up

found delirious in bed, with great difficulty of deglutition, a small irritable pulse at 120, and an excited skin. Leeches were then being applied to the temples, and powders of calomel and antimony being administered every two hours. The leeches I directed to be immediately removed, and sent for the medical attendant, on consultation with whom, on his arrival, as he declined any responsibility in the measures I thought it necessary to pursue, the cure was thrown altogether into my own hands. The patient's skin I now had sponged with tepid water, and the throat gargled, or rather mopped, occasionally with a large hair pencil, dipped in a mixture of strong chilly vinegar and honey, which produced a copious muculent salivation. Soon after this a grain of quinine, in solution, was administered, with a tablespoonful of port wine; and the same was

"One of his hands is raised above the head of the repeated every two hours throughout the

sick person, and the other is on the breast."

night, and two or three spoonfuls of sage and

wine between each dose. On the following morning the throat was much better, the fever had declined, and she expressed herself as feeling in every respect better. The remedies were continued, and in the evening all danger was at an end. After this she continued the quinine in doses of three or four grains during the day, and was up and well by the end of the week.

Another son and a servant of the same family were attacked the day after my arrival at the house, the disease being of epidemic prevalence in the town and for many miles around. They were both treated by an emetic in the first instance, followed up by a dose of calomel and jalap; and after the operation of this by a tea-spoonful of bark-powder, with two table-spoonfuls of port wine, every two hours, with immediate convalescence; and this treatment becoming now general in the town, was very successfully pursued.

Treatment in Cholera.

A physician of Freienwalde has it is said, in the "Medic. Zeitung," proved the acetate of lead, with strychnine, to be effectual in causing the immediate cessation of the vomiting in sporadic cholera and in tending to the speedy cure of that disease. The urinary secretion is, however, suspended under its employment, sometimes for as long a time as two days. Dr. Steinbach, of Brandenburg, is an advocate for the acetate in the same disease, but in combination with a solution of pure tannin. This mixture, he says, is specially indicated in the cases in which a softening of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane is present.

Nervous Headache, &c.

headaches of a kind dependent on nervA physician of Marseilles has found ous disturbance, obstinate tic doloureaux, &c., curable by the application of liquor Erysipelas.—An infant, fourteen months ammonia (l'ammoniaque depuis le vingtold, was attacked with erysipelas on the face, cinquieme degre jusqu'au trente-deuxieme,) which extended down the neck to the chest, on a dossil of lint, to the alveolar border of the and down the arms to the finger ends, the hands becoming edematous. Calomel, anti- palate. The solution is to be retained in conmony, and purgatives were freely adminis- within the teeth, until an abundant effusion of tact with the mucous membrane immediately tered for more than a week without perma-tears is excited, when the exacerbation of pain nent benefit; on the contrary, the disease will suddenly cease. This remedy proves was extending itself, and the child had become comatose. Under these circumstances ing the frontal and facial than the occipital more efficient against tic doloureaux attackhalf a grain of quinine was given every two nerves; but it has been successful in several hours, and a blister applied to the thigh. authenticated instances in which the latter The amendment was almost immediate, and have been the seat of pain. the child was two days after convalescent. I have only to add, in conclusion, that the above are not a few choice cases selected from among many, in support of the opinion I have previously advanced, that quinine is a remedy which of late years has been too much neglected in the treatment of these varieties of fever; but as I am out of practice, these are, although few, the only cases of the kind with the treatment of which I have had anything to do. June 10, 1843.

In Sub-Arachnoid Hemorrhage.

Pathology of Tetanus.

the Hotel Dieu of Paris, with tetanus superAt the autopsy of a patient who died in vening on fracture of the leg, numerous ecchymoses were found on the fibrous sheath of the spinal cord; and external to that membrane a collection of black and liquid blood occupied the lower part of the vertebral canal to the height of five or six inches. The spinal cord itself was softened throughout its lower twothirds, and closely adherent to its pia mater; and the ramollissement continued though in a less degree, to the occipital foramen, terminaFalse membranes never occur, but in the ting just below the corpora pyramidalia. intra-archnoid hemorrhage they are always Within the carnium the pia mater was obserfound around the effused clot on the fourth ved to be greatly injected, and there was exor fifth day. Paralysis of motion rarely tensive softening of the left anterior and midaccompanies sub-arachnoid hæmorrhage, but dle lobes of the brain. In the sciatic nerve of commonly intra-arachnoid hemorrhage; pa- the right side the side of the fractures ecchyralysis of sensation is rare in both kinds. mosis and inflammation were perceptible, but Deviation of the mouth does not occur in there was neither in the nerve of the opposite side. (It should be stated that the autopsy these cases, but sleep and coma are almost was not made until fifty hours after death.) constant symptoms. Delirium and fever Numerous other cases are cited, in which accompany intra-archnoid hemorrhage alone, softening of the nervous organs and similar but from this disease the patient may re-appearances have been observed; but tetanus cover; while sub-arachnoid hemorrhage has has occurred without such having been afterbeen found constantly fatal within eighty wards discoverable.-Archiv. Gen. de la Med., days. April, 1843.-London Lancet.