Dr. Chambers, of Kingston, New York, was beset by two stout highwaymen, in a lonely part of the road, a few nights since, and his money demanded. The doctor said: "Well, if I must give up my money, I had better do it." So he quickly took off his glove, and putting his hand into his side pocket, he drew out-not his pocket-book-but a neat revolver, and bringing it to bear in an instant, he shot one of the robbers dead. The other ruffian then fired at the doctor, but the ball went harmlessly through his hat. The doctor then took his turn again and wounded the fellow severely. He then rode back to Kingston and made known the facts, but on returning the wounded man had escaped.

Anak the Anakim, the French Giant, has been introduced by Professor Anderson at St. James' Hall, London. The following are his dimensions: Circumference of the head, 2 ft. 3 in.; length of humerus, 1 ft. 9 in.; length of radius, 1 ft. 53 in; circumferenee of fore-arm, 1 ft. 4 in.; round the biceps, 1 ft. 3 in.; circumference of middle finger, 3 in.; breadth of hand, 5 in.; length of femur, 2 ft. 6 in.; length of tibia, 2 ft. 1 in.; length of foot, 1 ft. 4 in.; round the chest, 4 ft. 6 in.; across the shoulder, 2 ft. 1 in.; height, 8 ft.; length of outstretched arms, 8 ft. 1 in.; weight, thirty stone, (420 lbs.) The giant's physical strength is at present unknown. He can lift 600 weight, and is daily growing more powerful.

HEROIC DOSES OF ACETATE OF LEAD IN UTERINE HÆMORRHAGE.

At a recent meeting of the Medical Society of Southwestern, New York, the proceedings of which are recorded in the Buffalo Med. and Surg. Journal, Dr. C. K. Irwin, of Dunkirk, read a paper on "Acetate of Lead in Uterine Hæmorrhage in Heroic Doses." He recommends its use in doses of one, two, or three drachms, which, he states, are as free from danger as if given in doses of so many grains, and with the effect of controlling the hæmorrhage, completely, in an instant. Dr. Irwin, in his practice, has always used the acetate of lead in these large doses, without having lost a patient from hæmorrhage of the uterus. It is not necessary to confine its use to cases of full period, or where the placenta has been delivered, as its action will be to cause immediate expulsion of the contents of the uterus, and it can be used in cases of violent hæmorrhage from polypus, hydatids, abortions, retention of placenta, or almost any case requiring prompt and heroic action for the suppression of uterine hæmorrhage, except in cases of placenta previa.

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Plan of Quarantine for Cholera. By W. MARSDEN, M.D., Ex-President and Governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada; Corresponding Member of the Medical Society of London; Hon. Member Medico-Botanical Society, London; Fel. Path. Society, Montreal; Hon. Fel. Berkshire Med, Society and Lyceum Nat. Hist.; Hon. Fel. Medico-Chir. Society, New York; &c., &c., &c.

The subject of cholera and quarantine which has latterly been agitating the public mind, has at last taken a practical and permanent form on this continent, in which the State of New York has taken the initiative. The legislature has advanced a step in the right direction, by passing a series of resolutions requesting the Governor to ask the general government "to place gratuitously and temporarily at the disposal of the Commissioners of Quarantine of New York, such number of hulks or vessels not now in use by the general government, as may be needed for quarantine purposes in the Port of New York, until some other provision is made by law." For these results we are mainly indebted to the Health Commissioners of New York, but especially so, to its resident physician, Lewis A. Sayre, M.D., who has been unceasing in his efforts to arouse the public to a proper sense of its duties. Professor Charles A. Lee, M.D., of Buffalo, has also come out in support of the safe, sound, and practical notion, that a system of quarantine may be enforced that will prevent the transmission of Asiatic Cholera from one country to another. This opinion is rapidly gaining ground, so many proofs existing that where a strict quarantine has been enforced, (independent of the recent one of the S. S. Atlanta) or, where a cordon sanitaire entailing rigid non-intercourse, (as in Russia and India) has been carried out, the discase has been arrested.

Dr. Sayre, in his annual report to the Health Commissioners, among other excellent suggestions, proposes that the general government of the United States should take up the subject of quarantine, so as to enforce uniformity of action; not only in the United States, but in Canada, and the British Provinces likewise. In fact, anything short of this would render quarantine, on this continent, worse than useless.

It is in this view of the subject that I now address your readers, and submit for their information, and perchance approval, and for the public in general, my plan of quarantine for Cholera, which has already been submitted to a number of scientific persons, both professional and others in the United States as well as Canada, by whom it has been received most favourably, and among these by Dr. Sayre, who pronounced it "the best he had examined."

Since then, it has been endorsed by the approval of the medical profession here, on the recommendation of the committee appointed at a general meeting, to take the matter into its consideration and report thereon, consisting of Professor Landry, Vice-President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada; Professor Sewell, Dean of the Faculty of Laval University, and a governor and ex-Vice-President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada; Professor Larue and Professor Lemieux of Laval University; Dr. H. Blanchet, Governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada; R. H. Russell, M.D., and Governor and Secretary of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada, and myself.

The principle of quarantine for cholera is, according to my system, an absolute one, embodying three separate and independent establishments, having no direct communication with each other. The following are the details, and the accompanying illustrative Leggotype is intended for application to the present quarantine station at Grosse Isle, but it may be adapted to any other locality, whether on an island or the main-land, and may be extended or diminished according to the necessities of the

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DR. MARSDEN'S PLAN FOR A CHOLERA QUARANTINE STATION. 1. The Cholera Quarantine Station shall be divided into three sepa rate and distinct sections or departments.

2. Each of these three sections or departments shall be isolated, and separated from one another by a cordon or portion of neutral ground, of not less than one hundred feet wide.*

I am of opinion that less than this space might suffice.

W. M.

a. One of these sections or departments shall be appropriated to the use of the sick, and shall be the hospital department.

b. The next or central section or department shall be devoted to the use of passengers not having had cholera, but from infected vessels.

c. And the third or healthy section or department, shall be appropriated to the use of the healthy, who have been removed from the central section or department, after having performed quarantine there.

A. In the first section or department there shall be three separate and distinct hospitals, besides a convalescent shed or hospital.

a. The one for confirmed cases of cholera to be called the "Cholera Hospital."

b. Another for cases of choleraic diarrhoea, or other premonitory symptoms of cholera, or suspected cases of cholera, to be called the "Hospital for Cholerine."

c. The third for all other diseases not cholera or cholerine, but coming from on board infected vessels, or vessels having had cases of cholera on board, to be called the "General Hospital."

B. The next or central section, or department, shall be the primary quarantine department, and shall be appropriated to all persons who are not sick, but come from vessels having had cholera on board, and where, in every case, on landing, shall undergo inspection, washing, cleansing, and purifying, both of persons and personal effects. There a quarantine of four days shall be performed, at the end of which period of time, all such persons as continue in sound health shall be removed to the Final Quarantine Department, and any that may fall sick, or be threatened with sickness, during the four days of probation, shall, as soon as detected, be removed to the proper hospital in the Hospital Department. Here all the healthy inmates shall be removed daily to a new locality, thus occupying four different habitations during their sojourn.

C. The third, or healthy department, shall be the Final Department, and shall be for all cases coming from the Primary Quarantine Department, after having been cleansed, washed, and disinfected, and after having undergone the four days quarantine, and here a further quarantine of six days shall be performed, (excepting in cases coming from the convalescent hospital or shed hereinafter provided for); making, in all, ten clear days of quarantine, when all persons continuing healthy shall be discharged from quarantine, and be removed from the station. If any premonitory symptoms or other cases of sickness occur in this department during the six days of quarantine, they shall, as soon as discovered, be removed to the proper hospital in the Hospital Department.