The Medical Times and Register Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...less satisfactory results for muscles. For a parenchymatous organ, on removing it from the turpentine bath, Dr. Frederick plunges it into melted wax or paraffin during half an hour to two hours, till the bubbles of turpentine have ceased to pass off. When withdrawn and cooled, the piece resembles a wax model, but is far superior in its minor details: the color of the organ persists. Endurance Of The Reindeer.--In one of the palaces in Sweden there is a picture of one of these animals, which is preserved with great care, from the fact that the animal from which it was painted drew the sledge of an officer, with important dispatches, the distance of eight hundred miles in forty-eight hours --Prof. Tenney, in Popular Science Monthly for April. Dk. Poggendorff.--On January 25, Dr. Johann Christian Poggendorff, the illustrious Professor of Physics in the University of Berlin, died in that city, at the ripe age of eighty years. Poggendorff began life in a pharmacy, which he entered at the age of sixteen, and continued therein eight years. Upon leaving the pharmacy, he entered the University of Berlin, and devoted himself exclusively to the study of chemistry and hysics: about this time he published his rst paper, others followed in quick succession, and at the present time nearly one hundred and fifty papers are attributed to him in the Royal Society's catalogue. In 1824., he undertook, on the death of the editor, the work of editing the Annalen der Physik und Chemie, of which he lived to receive the jubilee volume.--The Doctor. The Psychology Of Laughter.--Perhaps the psychology of laughter has never been better expressed than by Hazlitt: "Man," says the writer, "is the only animal that laughs, for he is the only animal that is struck with the dif...