Extraordinary C.ure. —At the Academy of Sciences, Professor Nelaton has recently read an interesting memoir on the destruction of tumours by the electrolytic method, in which he related an operation performed by him on a young man affected with an inveterate naso-pharyngeal polypus. The Professor had hesitated somewhat before having recourse to electricity, and had asked himself whether it would not occasion haemorrhage, or too great pain, or some other accident attendant on the near proximity of the spinal marrow. Encouraged, however by favourable experiments made on animals, he de, termined to try, and employed a powerful Bunsen pile withpiine elements, and two platina needles of half a millimetre in diameter. The first seance lasted ten minutes; there was very little pain, and no hajmorrhage. There were five other sittings, at ten days' interval each. " The patient," says the professor, "who entered my wards in the month of January last, left on the 28th of May completely cured." Such a result is certainly very grand. It somewhat surprised me, for I have often seen electricity applied, but never with such success. It is true that the pile employed by the professor was more powerful than any I had ever seen used. The case is worthy of being noticed. There are some tumours which resist all surgical methods —ablation, cauterization, &c.; or, when removed, leave terrible marks of mutilation. If Professor Nelaton's case be followed by ethers equally successful, such a method would be in certain circumstances a veritable boon. Lancet.
A Monster Piece of Coal. —A mass of coal, supposed to weigh upwards of two tons, has been excavated from the pit of the Waratah Coal Company. We understand that it is intended to forward this piece of coal to the forthcoming Exhibition at New Zealand.—Newcastle (N.S. W.) Chronicle.
A Mrs Hern whipped two editors in Dubuque a few days age. She only regretted that there were not four. They were thrashed, partly because they put her in the " Police Ileport," but mainly because their fighting qualities weremot equal to Hern.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1321, 22 November 1864, Page 3
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