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A PETRIFIED RAM, &C. 157
“ Resolved that major-general Schuyler shall send an
officer charged with the acceleration of the march of the
troops of Carolina, to their head quarters. The said
troops are to halt at Dumfries, Colchester, and Alexandria,
in Virginia, to undergo innoculation. The surgeons which
have been sent from Philadelphia to Dumfries, are ordered
to perform this operation with the greatest celerity.”
A PETRIFIED RAM.
-A labourer in a stone quarry in the village of Pantin?
near Paris, having detached a large block of Stone, found
in the middle a skeleton of a ram, petrified. Each part of
the stone contained a perfect half of the animal, the parts
were very distinct. The block was dug out of the living
rock, at the depth of 30 feet from the summit of the
quarry. A petrifaction so curious, was immediately de-
posited in the Museum of Natural History.
This discovery was made in the course of the month of
Jan. 1804.
ENORMOUS WEN !
A circumstance has lately occurred at Vienna, which
has excited the attention of all the medical faculty in that
city. A person who had been afflicted with a wen of a
most uncommon size for 25 years past, is lately dead at
the age of 88. This excrescence attained such a magni-
tude during the latter part of his life, that he was com-
pelled to keep his apartment. The faculty thought this
case of such consequence, that they obtained a model of
the wen in wax, at the same time anxiously waiting for
the decease of the patient to possess themselves of the
original. The patient having heard of the design they
had formed upon this part of his frame, took the precau-
tion to make a will, in which he strictly forbade the sepa-
ration of it from his remains after his decease. The phy-
sicians, both of the academy and the university, finding
themselves
“ Resolved that major-general Schuyler shall send an
officer charged with the acceleration of the march of the
troops of Carolina, to their head quarters. The said
troops are to halt at Dumfries, Colchester, and Alexandria,
in Virginia, to undergo innoculation. The surgeons which
have been sent from Philadelphia to Dumfries, are ordered
to perform this operation with the greatest celerity.”
A PETRIFIED RAM.
-A labourer in a stone quarry in the village of Pantin?
near Paris, having detached a large block of Stone, found
in the middle a skeleton of a ram, petrified. Each part of
the stone contained a perfect half of the animal, the parts
were very distinct. The block was dug out of the living
rock, at the depth of 30 feet from the summit of the
quarry. A petrifaction so curious, was immediately de-
posited in the Museum of Natural History.
This discovery was made in the course of the month of
Jan. 1804.
ENORMOUS WEN !
A circumstance has lately occurred at Vienna, which
has excited the attention of all the medical faculty in that
city. A person who had been afflicted with a wen of a
most uncommon size for 25 years past, is lately dead at
the age of 88. This excrescence attained such a magni-
tude during the latter part of his life, that he was com-
pelled to keep his apartment. The faculty thought this
case of such consequence, that they obtained a model of
the wen in wax, at the same time anxiously waiting for
the decease of the patient to possess themselves of the
original. The patient having heard of the design they
had formed upon this part of his frame, took the precau-
tion to make a will, in which he strictly forbade the sepa-
ration of it from his remains after his decease. The phy-
sicians, both of the academy and the university, finding
themselves