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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 566, 2 September 1869, Page 4

In a paper addressed to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. Pecholier, professor of clinical medicine at Mont pellier, proposes creosote as a cure for typhus fever. Dr. Pecholier attributes the deterioration of the blood in typhus fever to a ferment which substracts from the former the elements it requires for its own nutrition, and at the same time taints it with the produce of ils decomposition. Such being the case, typhus fever would infallibly end in death in all cases, were it not that this ferment itself is very short-lived, and dies in the course of about twenty days, so that the whole question of life and death is reduced 1o a kind of race between the vital powers of tho patient and those of the ferment ; whichever of the two outlives; the other, wins. Now it has been proved by M. Bechamp that creosote prevents the development and multiplication of organised fernu nts ; whence Dr. Pecholier concludes that it must exercise a similar action on the thphoid ferment, and it is on this assumption that is hew system of cure is founded. Dr. Pecholier now states that in all cases which the typhus fever was far advanced, he has obttiined no result whatever ; but that in incipient cases creosote diminished both the intensity and duration of the disorder. , Ho has tried his system on about sixty ( patients. A Mons. Veaudemont, a dancer, was shot at some time since in New York by a ruffian, who made his escape after shooting another man through the heart. The wound proving mortal, Veaudemont, calling a priest, expressed a wish that he might be married before he died to Mdlle. Aline La Favre, his favourite Terpsichorean colleague. His wish was that by imarrying her, she would inherit an estate of his of some value in France. A license "was hastily procured; the bride was brought to the bedside, and whilst clasping the clammy hand of the dying man, she faintlyand tearfully responded to the words of the ceremony. A few minutes after, Veaudemont died. The girl who had been made a wife and a widow in a few minutes, is the daughter of a Belfast merchant. Her father is said to have been mayor of the city, and is. much esteemed by the society of the place. The widow has left her questionable calling, and means to retire to the peace and privacy of her husband's estate in France.