Scientific Scraps.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1893, 23 August 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)

Scientific Scraps.

Dr. Fischer, of Trieste, is using cellulose as a dressing for wounds. It is firdt moistened, and after application is covered with any impervious tissue. Abtificial cork is among the Decent Gotman inventions. The method di production consists in mixing powdered cork With starch and water, and kneeding the ma3s while boiling hot until it is thoroughly mixed. This substance is then ponred into moulds for forming the articles, and afterward dried at a very high temperature. The material is described as quite light, and possesses non-con-ducting properties. A correspondent of the Liverpool Mttrennj declares that one ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in one pint of boiling water, drunk cold at short intervals, is a too prophylactic and erne of small-pox. Dr. Kiioler says that if flilk fissaea fife impregnated with chromate of copper, and then exposed to the direct sunshine, various shades of brown may be obtained, and, the fabric is rendered water-proof. On account of several recent cases of death in England among children who had been fed on wheaten biscuit, a physician statos in the Bntith Medical Journal that infants under six or eight months should be fed with nothing whatever but milk. • TnE London Lancet does not approve of children's parties, and thinks that not only in winter, but at all seasons, the amusements of young children should be simple, unexciting, and as free as possible from the characteristics of the pleasures of later years. Dr. L. H. Washisoton 3ays that when j pneumonia attacks the steady, gijaaro drinker, one who carries regularly his pint to a quart of whisky daily, the treatment comda exclusively under the domain of the undertaker, as the first case of recovery has yet to be reported.