Miscellaneous News.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5435, 27 March 1889, Page 4

Miscellaneous News.

Following the discovery of new uses of the cotton fibre and cotton seed, and of the common nettles comes the news of the discovery of sumo remarkable uses to which the fibre of tho bananamay ba put. Tho fibre extends the length of the body of the tree, or about 15ft, and is of silken fineness. The utilisation for the aervica of man is the great desideratum of humanity. ■ fej A novel and very promising application off the spectroscope in medicine has just been devised in Paris, and been taken up by some of the leading practical physicians in the city ; it consists in testing the quality of the blood by the rays of light which it absorbs. If the thumb be tied with a string and held toward the light a )i2ematoscopo,aa the new form of instrument is called, when applied to the nail gives the experienced docter a particular succession of colors from which he can draw valuable conclusions as to the condition of the blood in the thumb ; thua there are characteristic differences for different stages of aneomtna.

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