of little rods articulated one to another, and extending around the hair. Some of these rods appear to blend with the proper substance of the nodosity, others terminated at some dist::Dce, either by an ampulliform swelling or umbel late extremity. It is difficult to say whether these rods are the mycelium of the fungus which forms the cellular mass of the nodules, or whether they are independent of the latter. Nowhere in the substance of the hair could any trace of a vegetable parasite be

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... ered after the action of liquor of potassa or acetic acid. The interior of the nodules was composed of a cellular stroma similar to that covering the periphery, and on it were some large cavities containing one or two large colorless cells. A writer in the same jour nal of a subsequent date says that he has a patient suf fering from this rare disease in England. He believes it to be borhood of iron works: Several persons have, tried making ber tubing lined with linen. That is placed upon the patient's Large designs call forth large tools, and large tools, in glass of it, and have succeeded by adding the constituents head, and it is made of different sizes and shapes to fit the their turn, call forth large designs. Had·it not been for Na-that were wanting; but to get the slag to a condition in patient; the other extremity of the tube is put into a second smyth's hammer there would have been no such things as which the matter can combine, it has to be liquefied by heat, pail at the side of the bed, and by this means the head is ironclads, neither would there have been any of the monster which involves a very great expense. After many experi-iced. The effect in lowering temperature is very marked, cannon built upon the coil system, as they are at present. ments, Mr. Britten has succeeded in utilizing the-material, the thermometer in almost all instances indicating a fall of The steam hammer enables us to undertake Cyclopean tasks and also the heat from the furnaces, and an English com-temperature within an hour. If the temperature be rising it which we should never have dreamed of otherwise. {lany has been formed to work his patent. The company is checked. and if very high it can be lowered, s.II. d 80 ti.e The last and best known machinist of the goodly band that has erected glass works in N orthamptonshire, close to a set i6 gained for the recovery of the patient.