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SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
203 highest temperature ; but it does not ap- that the inferior extremity of the one may the other, and pear to he oxidised by this process. From correspond to the inferior of what has been said, you are conversant with vice versa, and in this case also union takes in chemical properties, and you are also place. aware, that it is applied to a great variety of Lastly, if the divided extremity of the important purposes, useful and ornamental. eighth pair be brought in contact with a cerfhe salts ot gold will not detain us long ; vical nerve, union takes place. As to the return of the functions, I have see shall proceed to the consideration of them m the next Lecture, and the combinations not been able accurately to determine this I point in some of my experiments ; the funcof p:aunum. tions have, in others, not been restored. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
In the Journal de Pharmacie, there is a FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. case. recorded by Professor Rudolphi, of a man who suddenly felt a pain in the arm, similar to that produced by the blow of a EXPERIMENTS OS THIt RE-UNION OR CICA- stick, and immediately perceived in the TRIZATION OF WOUNDS OF THE SPINAL same spot a small flame, which burnt his shirt. There is also the case of a girl menMARROW AKD THE NERVES. tioned, seventeen years of age, in whom a BY M. P. FLOURENS.* kind of blueish sulphureous name appeared IB my former experiments it has been around the finger ; the flame could not be seen, that different parts of the nervous extinguished by water; it burnt the clothsystem may be completely separated from ing brought in contact with it, but could the rest of the body, and still present a only be distinguished in the dark. The certain degree of life or action, so that they best electrometers placed in contact with are susceptible of being united to parts from the patient, presented no sign of electricity. which they have been separated, and recofer m certain cases the full exercise of their CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF THE FEMURS. functions. One of the hemispheres of the A man, seventy years of age, was affected brain, for instance, on being divided, instautly loses its functions; after the lapse with retention of urine, for which he was of a certain time the incision cicatrizes, and admitted into the Hotel Dieu ; the water the functions of the part return. This, in- was withdrawn, but the patient soon exdeed, is the case with all the parts of the pired. He also appeared to have congenital dislocation of the femurs, on which account brain and spinal marrow. The experiments of Fortana on the re- M. Dupuytren wished to examine the body union of the nerves are well known ; they with great care. The thighs could not be separated from have been repeated by a great number of the f and also. divided body, without describing with the feet a physiologists by myself the eighth pair on a cock. Two months after- segment of a circle ; the trochanters were vrards, the wound being cicatrized, I again more closely approximated to the ilia, and exposed the nerve on which I had operated, much more elevated than in the natural and found it a little enlarged, but the ends, state ; the heads of the ossa femorum were completely united. J thought it importantsituated higher, the knees carried more into ascertain whether the inferior extremity wards, and the thigh shorter than usual ; iu had acquired, by its union with the superior;fine, there was a total change of relations, and the power of again uniting if divided, which,a marked difference in direction and length. by a repetition of the experiment, From this change of the relations of the that it had. bone, it results, says M. Dupuytren, that The following are the results of my expe-. the cavity destined by nature for the bone, riment, which contain some points that dc, either does not exist, or is more or less ob* not appear hitherto to have been noticed :-. literated. From the change in length and dithe points of insertion of some of the The ends of a nerve that has been commuscles are also changed. Some of the mus* pletely divided, can again unite. A nerve that has been divided unites, andcles being relaxed, others put on the stretch. re-union also takes place if the nerve beThe superior part oftlie thighs was enlarged, again divided below the points at which thethe trunk bent backwards, and the abdomen carried forwards ; the pelvis, instead of tiperiment was originally tried. Two different nerves may be crossed so, being oblique, was nearly transverse ; the buttocks soft and flabby, which must have been owing to the approximation of the in* Annales des Sciences Nat. Feb. 1828,, sertion of the glutæi magni. Passing then -
I found,
rection,
In the Journal de Pharmacie, there is a FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. case. recorded by Professor Rudolphi, of a man who suddenly felt a pain in the arm, similar to that produced by the blow of a EXPERIMENTS OS THIt RE-UNION OR CICA- stick, and immediately perceived in the TRIZATION OF WOUNDS OF THE SPINAL same spot a small flame, which burnt his shirt. There is also the case of a girl menMARROW AKD THE NERVES. tioned, seventeen years of age, in whom a BY M. P. FLOURENS.* kind of blueish sulphureous name appeared IB my former experiments it has been around the finger ; the flame could not be seen, that different parts of the nervous extinguished by water; it burnt the clothsystem may be completely separated from ing brought in contact with it, but could the rest of the body, and still present a only be distinguished in the dark. The certain degree of life or action, so that they best electrometers placed in contact with are susceptible of being united to parts from the patient, presented no sign of electricity. which they have been separated, and recofer m certain cases the full exercise of their CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF THE FEMURS. functions. One of the hemispheres of the A man, seventy years of age, was affected brain, for instance, on being divided, instautly loses its functions; after the lapse with retention of urine, for which he was of a certain time the incision cicatrizes, and admitted into the Hotel Dieu ; the water the functions of the part return. This, in- was withdrawn, but the patient soon exdeed, is the case with all the parts of the pired. He also appeared to have congenital dislocation of the femurs, on which account brain and spinal marrow. The experiments of Fortana on the re- M. Dupuytren wished to examine the body union of the nerves are well known ; they with great care. The thighs could not be separated from have been repeated by a great number of the f and also. divided body, without describing with the feet a physiologists by myself the eighth pair on a cock. Two months after- segment of a circle ; the trochanters were vrards, the wound being cicatrized, I again more closely approximated to the ilia, and exposed the nerve on which I had operated, much more elevated than in the natural and found it a little enlarged, but the ends, state ; the heads of the ossa femorum were completely united. J thought it importantsituated higher, the knees carried more into ascertain whether the inferior extremity wards, and the thigh shorter than usual ; iu had acquired, by its union with the superior;fine, there was a total change of relations, and the power of again uniting if divided, which,a marked difference in direction and length. by a repetition of the experiment, From this change of the relations of the that it had. bone, it results, says M. Dupuytren, that The following are the results of my expe-. the cavity destined by nature for the bone, riment, which contain some points that dc, either does not exist, or is more or less ob* not appear hitherto to have been noticed :-. literated. From the change in length and dithe points of insertion of some of the The ends of a nerve that has been commuscles are also changed. Some of the mus* pletely divided, can again unite. A nerve that has been divided unites, andcles being relaxed, others put on the stretch. re-union also takes place if the nerve beThe superior part oftlie thighs was enlarged, again divided below the points at which thethe trunk bent backwards, and the abdomen carried forwards ; the pelvis, instead of tiperiment was originally tried. Two different nerves may be crossed so, being oblique, was nearly transverse ; the buttocks soft and flabby, which must have been owing to the approximation of the in* Annales des Sciences Nat. Feb. 1828,, sertion of the glutæi magni. Passing then -
I found,
rection,