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and olive oil , both by the mouth iand in enema ; tobacco , injecting the veins , &c ., were all tried , and without the successful- issue that their various English ; Continental , or Indian advocates had promised ; sometimes , it is true , in the hands of . one . or two practitionera ,: two or three , cases would consecutively recover , and then the plan was vaunted and the , medicine . strongly recommended Jby a letter in the Lancet or Tipies ; bit in , a . little while . the . new remedy was perhaps condemned with the rest ; , and it was found , that a fortuitous run of recovering cases had given tlie riledicine a lustre as false as evanescent ., ' ; - | . ; . , ; > j ,.. i The reader may perhaps reineinber that ,,, a few Tveek ^ agg \ ( yide Leafer , No . 184 ) , we communicated tie results of a series of experiments , made , by the French physiologist , Brown- Sequard / proymg , bejrond a , dpuro » that in many cases of poisoning the proximate caiise . of death , was the diminution of temperatm-e which ensued : we intiinated the cpnnexion , p this fact with the recognised necessity of warmth $ s one mode , of treating cholera , and in Mr . BarweU ' s volume there is abundant evidence in . favour of that view . Here is one passage : —
" Stimulants , such as brandy , ammonia , or wine , though decidedly useful m their place , have not such effect in restoring circulation , and exciting the system , to greater action , as in collapse from -other dfeeasjj ; indeed , considering the difference of its cause in this and in other maladies , it is not to be expected that they would be as beneficial ; for prostration usually occurs in consequence of nervous shock , and consequent loss of nervous power ; therefore , stimuli which act upon that system are naturally in those cases such as would benefit . But in this disease there is comparatively little loss of nervous power ; In fact , with so great disturbance of the circulation , the retention of nervous power is marvellous . Our remedies ought not , thereforei to be directed through : that system , but we should , if possible , find some mean 3 of acting on and recalling the circulation without exciting the nervous centres ; and the best mode of doing this ; is by external heat : -: ¦ ¦ ' '• ' - ' .. ' ¦ ' ¦ ' . '"' ; ' - . , , ' / ., ' v M '< - . '" This pr inciple of combating the deadly cold collapse was not found or ^'
arecognised at St . Thomas ' , until after several eases had been treated at the hospital , and : the general inefficacy of me < licines or of stimulants proved ; and though a certain number under the treatment then adopted recovered , still the whole result was unsatisfactory : thus , of . 2 $ cases of perfect collapse , before external heat was used , but 7 recovered—a very small proportion ; but after : this was employed 61 patients were treated by some mode , in which this formed ah essential parii , and of these 27 recovered , or not very far from half the whole number—a propjorr tion which we may call 9-20 ths of the whole—the application or nori-applicati&p of external heat making the difference between the recovery ¦; of one quarter or one half of the whole number of patients . " ' . '¦' . ' . , ... ¦ , a >
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A SALAD FOE THE SOLITARY . A Salad for the Solitary . By an Epicure . Price 3 s . 6 d . . 1 Bentley . These are few light boots more entertaining than the gossiping anecdofcical collections ,. of which the elder Disraeli Jias . giyen the mpdej ., , S . m"Mt talk is a tendency of human nature , and such books give "iis . small f talt about interesting persons . It Vouki be difficult to compile a thoroughly dull volume of such anecdotes and scraps as those collected by the "Epicure , " in his chapters on Dietetics , the Talkative and Taciturn , Curious and Costly Books , Dying "Words of Distinguished Men , Citations from Cemeteries , the Infelicities of tlie Intel ! ectiial ; Pleasures of the Pen , Sleep and its Mysteries , &c . ; nevertheless the "Epipure" has approached-as near the standard of dulness , as this anecdotes would let nim . The book
is made up of good , bad , very bad , and indifferent . It is the common * place book of a commonplace mail ; what the author quotas and compiles is often readable enough , What lie brings front out his own stores jhad better be skipped lightly orer . When we notify ,. therefore , that . th ^ e book may be lounged over , at odd half hours , with amusement , ' we ares not to be understood as iiiiplying more than the fact of anecdotes ancl quotations bciug always acceptable , in sucli unfilled gaps of time . There seems to have been no attempt at exhausting a topic , and for ciyridsityand pompleteness , the series of papers occasionally appearing in the Untie , under the title of " [ Rambles in the Byeways of Literature , * ' is far b / etter worthy of attention . ¦ '"' ' . , ' ' . ' ,
! Nt 5 verthelesa , out- rriadoi's may not bo sorry to havealcaf or , two of this " Salad for the f > qlitai * y ; " we will not close the volumpwithout gratifyiiijg them . Here is a bit of jL'osHip abotit the '' " , ' .
MAltRIAGKS OF BALZAC AND LASlAKTINE . "M . Balzac , tho French novelist , exhibits another example of eccentricity in matrimonial affairs . According to a Parisian correspondent , tho arrival of this celebrated author from ' Germany caused ari immenHe Hcnoation in certain circlcR , owing to the romantic ¦ circumstancurt connected with lii « marriage . ' Wlien JJalzac w . is in the zenith of his famo , ho \ v : w travelling in Switzerland , and liad arrived at the inn jiiHfcat the very moment tho Prince and PrincoHH Hankki wen ? leaving it . Balzac waH ushered into tho room they had just vacated , and w . * la leaning . from tho window to observe their departure , when Inn attention wm arrested by ? i fioft voice at his elbow nuking for a book which iiad boon loft behind upon' tho window-Tlio lad certainlfairlut
noat . y wan y , » appoarod doubly Ho in the uym of tho poor author , when nho iutimatod that tho book nho wan in < jue , st of wan tho pocket edition of Mh own works / adding that , hIio never . travelled without it , and that without it she could not oxiat !> tfhy drew tho volume from benoatJiJiis dhow and flow ' down fl tains , obodient to tho ' Hcxeamin / j huiudiouh of hor huHband , a pumyold K ohtlfman , who wan already soattul < " the carriage , railing in a loud ' voice fumhwt dilntwy habits of women in general , and bin own hjiouho in particular ; and the emblazoned vohiclo drove off , leaving- tho novojiat in a ntat , e of " Holf-compl / icency tho : moHt . enviablo to bo conceived . Thirt van tho onl y occasion upon which BaLaad and tho PrincosH Kiiiinki had mot , till hin lvcont visit to ( \ ormrmy , when ho pjnowmted' lnniHoliV-aH her uoooptfid hutfbnnrl . During thono lonir infcorvoninr *
liltot ' . n yo ; iw , Jmwcvor , a hturary c-orittHpoiatloinm w ; ih Ktiiadil y kopt up Itotwcj ' on tho parti ( fH , till at , length , inntead of a letter oolitiiining literary HtrlcUurrt upon 1 <} r wril-iiig ^ H , a nn ' KHJyo of another kind ¦ -hnvinp ; i HtiU moro djroctl y poraonal t « n < lency ronejjed him from tlio fair hand of tho PrinceHH . ft ; containod tho ariuoiiricomoii ' t of tho ( loiniHn of hor hiruband tholVinw , —th . it ho , ha *! , boqu < J « , tl > e . d to > horAluH domains Jind ' . hirt grout wealth , and . <) ' nHo . | ui « ntly , thijit , y )} o fo } t bo . 'Mul t , « ruuulto him ih riohlb' me ; VHurc for bin liboralit y , and had «) ot , ormine ( l . 'iJ ^ MVgiyjnp hiin , ; l HiicortHHor—in tho portion of TWlzao . ' T It i « noodlcm to ' niifito th ^ ij Oio dqlig )»» , o , j author Waited not a fteeomT Hunimoiif ); tlioy wore forfthWifch united in wedlock at her oliAteurf'oir tho Ithirio , and a HUccoHHion of Rjitinft \< t 'iV | t <> H ''< ' Iol » rat « d ? tiio aunui <) iouH ) ovont , ¦ ¦ ¦ ' " ' ' "" " ' " ¦'¦ ' "' ¦ '" ^"
" Tho . Htory of tho irmrring-o of Lamartino i « . 'iIkoouc of rortlantl < y jntorffyt . r f'ho lady , wIiobo maiden muno was Biixjh , wan poH «« -iried of connidurahio ' property , and when paafc the bloom of youth , who bocamo paiaionatoly oiiani'ouro'd of tho poot
from the perusal of his ' Medifcatioo ^ Sj , . ]^ or siqme , jthno-, she nursed this sentiment in secret , and being apprised of the embarrassedi state of his affairs , she wrote him tendering him the bulk of heir fottujxe-. i : ¦; cTouahed wi ^ i . ithi » remarkable proof of her generosity , and supposing it could op ^ y , be cavispdl by ; a preference for himgelf he at once made an offer of lp . a bisind&n ^ !' j ^ e . arfi . . ' -. ilLe Judged rightly , and the poet was promptly accepted . ' * , ; - ' ::,, .- , . - . ;; .-, . ' ¦ ¦ * .. . ¦ •>< ; : , , . : ¦ . ; : ' : The following might ha ^ i ? been indefinitely eicteridied , but it suffices to indicate the . ;; ¦ .., .- ;¦ :.:. ¦ ¦ .- ' •¦ : :: ¦¦' ¦ - ~\ . --- v . ^ i .: ' , (¦ '" .
YOLtraflirOtrSNESS OF-ATTTiadKS :-" Our forefathers , however , nlustihiVfe .-liad / th ' ei ^^ iie ^ ice /^ pretty severel y taxed by the prolixity of some 6 f the early scribes . What should . we think of twentyone huge folios ?—yet we find > in ¦ 1651 , 'A ;' writer of' suth ihterminable dimensions ' while another , Peter D'Alva , everi extended his ; learned , lUfeubrations to no less than forty-eight , in an abortive atten | p fc' ' to e ^ jpound : ' pi ' , ^ my . s | ery unfathomable , and which his labyrinth of words" tiut reiidered ' the" more mysterious . "While , not to name Confucius or the reputed six hundred Voluttjseiy by tije iFrench bishop , Du Bellay , we might remind' the reader of ' the ; ' astpundihg' intunation given bj St . Jerome , to the effect that"he' : had ' ' ^ e ^ s ^''' ^^ /*(()^ a »< i \ boobs . ' written by Grigen , who ' daily wearied seven notaries ^ ' and ' as ni ^ ny boys , in writing after hove of
him ! ' It ought not to have amazed his friends , ;• therefore , ^ q- learned the sickness of that multjfarioua-writet , Sir Johii Hill ( the « u * jthor of the Vegetable System ) , when he confessed it . Was in , cbnseqUetice pf , qv ^ r ^ &rklng himself on seven productions at once / We read' of Haiis Sachs , a Nuremburg shoemaker , who lived about the close of the fifteenth century , and who seem ? to have apportioned his labours equally-between bodfai and books ^ the |> raisewt > rthy arts of making poetry and pumps , sonnets arid ^ shoes , to the 'TJthyesst 1 of hi $ age ; when he took an inventory of his poetical stock in trade , arid ' fouiidj according to his own calculation , that his works filled thirty folio -volumes , all written with his own hand . They comprised 4200 songs ; 208 comedies , " tragedies , and farces ; 1700 fables , miscellaneous poems , and tales , and 7 $ military and love sq ^ gforrfoinniiig . a ., ggaBtjt total of 6048 pieces , small and great ; out of which he culled as mj ^ ry 9 a filled
three ' gfeat folios , which were pubh ' shed in the year 1558-61 . How strangelythe early Scribes seem'to have coveted the ambitipri : -b ^ gJ S ^ f ^ ind ^ ^ rfteirt ^ : ' h ^ i remembering ^ tha tPersius ^ became itnmbrtal ¦ * f ) rbni / ''&e / ' tt »^) nJLi 6 i 6 n ' 6 ¥ ibtot ^ bV ^<^* of paper inscribed . $ yM& pan- ¦ ¦ ¦¦ .: ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ; '¦¦ ' : ¦¦ '• . ' ¦' ; " ' "¦'" '¦ " ' -l ! : ! ' - > ¦ - ; •'¦ - ¦ : ^ - > ; . ' [ ' \ s ' i We presume it' will he hypercritical to sugge ^ t ? iat Persitis had neitHer pen nor sheets of paper , ami that his ¦ - ^ 6 rks' ^ dt ^ d i ^ ve tfb ^^; ia ' 'H ^ f |^; area than ; two ! sheets , - -HiEird' the two ' ..-she ' etsib ^ eii ' tK ^ e ^ ' . 'W ^ e ' i bii tj ^ ' ^ pic ' of ^ vo hnninotisnes& We > will add the epitaph ; M ^ g ' ^ dd /; fdi » '^ i ^ cfek& '; * 5 whoi althongh & '¦ Trater ^ drinfcer , ' wa& thte father' of ' ' ^ twenty \ roit > lcs aM twenty children : had he been a drinie ! r ^ of win ^^^ 'hdwiiuldM ^ pepped the whole world with boots and nieni" ¦ , <\ - /¦'' ¦ "' ' . ' ^' - '"' . Hicjacet qui aquarti bibendo vigniti liberossitScepit , tiig ^ rt { Upi'O $ edi ^' . Sirneirunibibissett ^ urn o ^ beT ^ i'niple ^ s'Uf ' ' ' . 'j m ... - ! , ; .,.. "( it We conclude otir notice , with this extract of ' ' - ;! '; - . ¦> ' " ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' !' . ''• • . yu ' ' Mi ' ' ;;' - ! vEK ^ AL ^ bTjRrosTdriES ^ ' ¦ '' : ' . i : , " [' ' ¦ \ ., / ' . ' ' .
"A Very learned Frenchman , ' in cbriyersation ^ wj ^ h , ; Djr-. ^ Vall ^ ce ,, of p ^ fpr , d ,,, about the year 1650 , and author of a ^ cxk ^ &r '' 6 V ^ & % j i ^^ y ^^^ B ym ^^ t in Latin , after expatiating with the Doc ^ bf ' oW ' tne ^ ' co ^ ioUsneas of ^ the , iFreijtc-h ,-language , and its richness in derivations' arid synonyms , produced , ' - by W ^ y " 6 f illustration ^ the following four lines on rote-making . ' - ^ ¦'•'• ' •• ' ' ¦ ' '" ¦¦ ';•• " -. ; , '' , •¦ ¦ ¦ -: ^ 'Q unnd un cordiel :, cordiEtiit , vettW ' cttraer uKl'c ' or 4 e ; "' . .. . Pour sa corclo . oordor , trois cdrdoria il accord' ; ' ~ ; ! , " " ,. ' ' . . . . . , , ,- ; ,: ! , ¦ - J ^ fais , si ua , des cordpns-do lacorde decord < fii ( > : - >>'¦>' ¦ ' ' te cordon <; lecord ( S . fait d . ecqrder la . wi ; dfi , ' ...,. \ i , v , ... r ;; : ! . ¦ : "To iho \ v tljat the English language , was . at . least eqiwJJynchi and copious , ; iDr . Wallace imni . ediately translated , the ^ rench inf ; q as many lines of MEngHftb ; w ^ brd for word , using tlie word tipist to , ex . pres « the JFrencb , corde ; --p- > , , . a j ; " ' When a twister artwiGtinpr will twi ^ t him a twipfc : , , ., _ ¦¦ ¦ •¦/ ... .: ! i s ¦ ' ¦ : ¦¦ ¦
; .. - ••' - , " ' IToi * the'Wistiri g hiM twist , ho fclirce twines dofli ehtyrist , - . . . But if ono of the twines of the twist do untwist , TJio twine that untwiatctk , untwistefch tl » o twist . '• ¦ . !¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ' ¦ • ' ¦ * '' Here were verbs , nouns , participles , and synonyms < x > match ' the French . ' To show further .. ' the . power and versatility of the English , ' the doctot-added-the four . fplio . wJng linos , which ^ continue tho subject r— ' ¦; ' ¦ ¦ •'/ ' '"" ''' . " . .. -.. , , , "' . Untwisting tho twine * hat untwiatcd between , ¦ ' ' , ¦ ' \" , : ; , H ' o twirls with liis twister the twt ) in a twine ; ' ¦¦ • Thon twic « haying twisted tho twines -of tluVtwino ^ ; ' ' ' "'"' . . "fio twintoth tlio fcwine ho lmd -twined in twain . ' • . ; . ' . ; ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ : ' "Tho French funds had boon exhausted at the outset . Not so with the Englitth , for Dr . Wallace , pushing hia triuiwh , added yet four o ] thorjli , ae 0 ) AyhM 1 follow : —; . . , ^ . _ ; , ( i ,, . . i ( ,, ; ; , t , ii i : . f :.. ; ¦ . ; . ' ,. "' Tho'twain ( , l » n ( , in twining ] b ' eforo in tljo f . wjfi ' o ,, . . ; . ¦ m ¦ l ! ; ' " ' ' As twjnH wcro iivtwistod , no noV irlotli chtwiiio ; , :., ¦ , "•; . ''¦ 'Twi ^ fc tho -twain intertwisting' a twiho nioro btifc \ Voori , ' ' ' . ¦ ,- ' ) He , ; twirling liia twister , makes a twiat / of the twine . ' ' '' ' _" .. ( "Dr . Adam Clarke , to whom we are indebted for tho record of tlie preceding trial of skill hclweon the two philologistR , addf ^ in corichinion , that ' ho < iHcBti 6 n « ¦ whether , tliero is - another language'in ; the imivofHo Oftpallle ¦ of siich ii Variety -of flnctioua , rW : . . which can afford ho many termft , mid derivaAivoH , ^ ¦ '• all logitiinattfc ' , comwg fromtlio ij ( ain «{ i ; wl > x , without . borrowing jli ; single teriW fiftni Another tojicuoor coining one for the Hake of tho sound ; , fot thirain . riot a » . \ vbrd « H < sd l )* f oxefcia
, i > r . Wallace in these linos which in not purejy An ^ o-S ^ xor ^ : not ono hoinff tmtcrUnwV' ' . . ' . ' ' . ' , ¦ • . ' ' . •¦ ' :-. ¦ ">¦ '¦ ¦! l ' . ' < fti " " rho ' f ortqwiiig ' linoH , from ( lr : iy : ¦ * Xho pl <> ughjinan hoirticwjird pl » f !» J , M « , w « ftry way , Ikih boon' found to admit of oi ghtoon ' trarjiHpofljtions ^ wfthox ^ t dcHfyrfjy ing , ¦ Aw rhymo 6 r altorlrig tnofionao' ' tlio roador willlio content wlitli tho following .: ;; . ,, ; l 1 ' " "'"¦' ' ' ¦ «^ k Tlio Woury j ) k ) u ^ hmwi ' p l ()( iH lualiomoward wn- ^ v . ! ' . . '¦!¦ ¦ s i . , , , ... ; Tiji , wMirj plou / rhma ' n ' nor tiowftr'd p lodW hift ' way ' . ' . ' . ' ,: ' . ¦>¦ ! :. , ¦• . ¦¦ ' ¦ Tho ] Moiighnian , woary ; itoWlnH liornbWur < VMo !» 3 i ' ' , ' . ' ., ' , . ,, ., , . , ,, m TI'Iio pJou f ^ hmnn , wonr ' y , hom « wimlp l < Ml « hm M » ay- ' ¦' ' "' ¦' Wpuny thojjIouplutmiViplof ^ Jas . hoinovvtixtlwaJyi , . ' >•¦ ¦ ' " ¦" iWcftry . U « M > louirhmim Iwrtnow ^ rd plo » to hiH . wwy ^ cm . ' . ) -. ¦ •' .- if ¦
! Jfoinowtird ( ljo ploii ^ li i ' rijui jilodn Iriu wonjryi Wiiy , ¦ , ' . ; :: I ! •' : l " ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ Jl ' otriowhlrAtho w « niry p loi ^ fnnAii ploflA hin wAy- f ' , | . ( , vv . iroinow-. nl ( ho ploughman , weary , plods liin wrfy . ' .. ' . < j ) ., ; , ) ,., ; ,., . Tho bomowarcl plouphuiiia ( fwjury / plodinhm wav- ' ' ¦ " , " ( Thq h ^ ui « war ( l pknjghwan plv ^ B hw wpary > rny . ' ' ' ' j "SouUu \ y , i <> ' « . y l ( O remeniborod , ho highly enteHttvod ( 3 ow ) wr ' B bohwtiftil ' ljmj ** to hiH iyfn {| M 9 V Hj ?« rtrai ( t » . tIw . t ho in roportHcl to bavn wwd ^ hp wo « uld m"fW haTWriiii « W hf 4 writton % tlioir authowhip . -, This jh high tribute to tho atniftDio y «) jt in < 5 livnohj ) ly , wubo of Oowpcr ; ' l > ut wo aro ^ igrcfjwng .. ; , W . ^! t »^ f « rd roturif ^ w « our arioirialoiit | i » ul ourioii » meloctionn ; nndjirHt , bcjj . to . prOHont » n ;» g « n « Wl ? Vw of literary Mosaic :
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1853, page 1122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2013/page/18/
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