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8 Lambert, Longit, of Washington. A. P. Tr, 1817, 9 Laplace, Celestial Mechanics. Part 1, 349 pp, ils, 8, bds London, 1821, 2,

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Cicada,

Happy creature! what below

Can live more happy than thou? Seated on thy leafy throne

Summer weaves thy verdant crown. Sipping o'er the pearly lawn

The fragrant nectar of the dawn! Little tales thou lov'st to sing, Tales of mirth-an infant king. -ANACREON.

Haber.

How keen thy vision, e'en though reft of sight! U sing with double power the mind's clear light: Bees, and their hives, thy curious ken has scaned, Each cell, with geometric wisdom plan ned, Bich stores of honied knowledge thus at thy command.

The rich collection of insects of Dr. Moritz Isenschmied is bequeathed to the Natural History Museum of Bern, together with a sum of $16,000 for the entomological part.

It is surprising that so many wealthy men bequeath their collections to institutions with no provision for their proper care or maintenance. The Wilson collections of birds, &c.,at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, is a notable example of this.

-Boston Precocity.-Jack (aged ten years or under.)-"I trust, Tommy, that you believe in the non-essentiality of a pre-existent first cause?" Tommy.-"Oh, certainly. At least, I go no further back than the primordial atomic globule." (Exeunt, driving their hoops.)-Harard Lampoon.

MONONGAHELA CITY, PA.
November 25, 1880.

PROF. A. E. FOOTE, M. D.,

Philadelphia, Pa.

DEAR SIR: -Hall & Whitney's Reports of Iowa have just arrived this evening. They are in good condition, and I am much pleased with them. I like your plan of doing business, and consider your facilities of large advantage to persons desiring to purchase collections and books treating on the Natural Sciences.

Accept my sincere thanks,

J. SUTTON WALL, Civil Mining Engineer. The following numbers in Entomology are not now in stock:

12114, 12118, 12121, 12123, 12125, 12132, 12144, 12152, 12153, 12156, 12160, 12167, 12193, 12197, 12208, 15163, 15173, 15180.

No. 10, December, 1880,

Take to door, Chestnut and Walnut St., Arch St., Race and Vine St. Cars, or P. R.'R.

Fitch Collections of Books, Minerals, Fossils, &c.

Especial attention is called to these collec tions which have recently been purchased by me. The lists of Entomological books is far the best ever published in this country. As the American Entomological Society engrave his name on their diplomas I have no doubt that his autograph, which occurs on nearly all the books, will be considered of value. See description of 150,000 insects, on another page.

The great amount of labor involved in getting out the catalogue of this collection, and in getting the large collections I made this summer in Canada ready for sale, has prevented my doing full justice to subscribers of late, but what is lacking will be made up with January number.

Locusts as Food.

Prof. Chas V. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, has been the target of many newspaper shots since he announced his belief in the excellence of locusts as an article of diet, boiled, roasted, fricasseed and fried. Excepting locusts, most insects used for human food have been procurable only in small quantities, and as a matter of curiosity or epicurean taste. Locusts have, however, been an article of substantial food for man from immemorial antiquity. Among the Nineveh sculptures in the British Museum are representations of men carrying different kinds of meat to a festival; some of the men bring sticks to which locusts are tied. These insects are accounted among "clean meats" in Leviticus, and are elsewhere in the Bible spoken of as food for man. Herodotus mentions a tribe of Ethiopians that feed on locusts "which came from southern and unknow districts." Livingstone states that this is still the case with many African tribes. In Morocco, where locusts do damage every year, they are used for food whenever their increase seriously diminishes the crops. The insects are roasted and offered for sale in the market in Tangiers and in other cities. The locust is also used for food in Southern Russia. Many American tribes of Indians, as is well known, make use of locusts for food. As to the method of cooking, the Romans are said to have roasted them to a bright golden yellow. Locusts of the Old Wor are mostly large, and can be easily prepar

first detaching their legs and wings, and then by roasting, boiling, broiling, frying or stewing. In Russia they are salted and smoked. In Morocco they are salted by the Hebrews, but are ordinarily boiled and then fried. The Hebrew population use the salted locusts as part of the composition of a dish which contains almost everything eatable, is put into the oven on Friday night, and taken out on the Jewish Sabbath, so that a hot meal is provided without lighting a fire on the latter day. A variety of other methods of cooking were instanced by Prof. Riley, He had long desired to test the value of some of these methods, and took the opportunity afforded by the recent raids of locusts at the West. He found the flavor of the cooked insect-prepared in almost any of the methods described quite agreeable. Fried or roasted in nothing but their own oil they had a pleasant nutty flavor, peculiar, but agreeable. He boiled them and stewed them, and found them admirable. At a hotel he endeavored in vain to obtain assistance in the kitchen. The cooks and servants retired in disgust. The naturalists were obliged to do their own cooking, but the savory messes they concocted converted the kitchen, and cooks and guests alike agreed upon the excellence of the soups, fricassees and fritters, which were materially composed of locusts. The experiment was a great success. Prof. Riley describes a variety of instances in which the cooked locusts were eaten by his friends, with scarcely a dissenting opinion in their favor.-Exchange.

Insects as Medicine.

According to our medical exchanges the latest sensation in the way of a materia medica is the Blatta Orientalis, or in less scientific language, the cockroach, which comes this time, as it did once before, from Russia. Bogomolow is the name of the person who has investigated it. The insect, dried and powdered, is given in doses of four and a half grains in Bright's disease, chronic or acute. But it appears that this is not the only thing that the insect is good for, since Unterherger and Kochler are said to have used it with great success in various forms of dropsy.

Kirby and Spence point out the fact that many insects emit very powerful odors, and some produce extraordinary effects upon the human frame, and for this reason, say they, it is an idea not altogether to be rejected that these animals may concentrate into a smaller compass the properties and virtues of the plants upon which they feed, and thus afford medicines more powerful in operation than the plants themselves.

Setting aside the preliminary observation in regard to "powerful odor," such a notion can scarcely have refererce to the cockroach, the favorite food of which is the bed bug, or, such pabulum failing, almost anything from a minced pie down to an old boot. What particular medicinal alkaloid the insect's digestive apparatus can eliminate from such a mixed diet, it would be difficult to determine. The homeopathic pharmacist, however, has long been accustomed

to obtain the concentrated strength of some such active principle by triturating the blatta down to its ultimate molecule with sugar of milk. By reference to a homeopathic work on symptomatology we find that "provings show that this insect, when administered to the healthy subject, causes laziness, which certainly is an extraordinary effect to be produced by so agile a creature. A high potency of the bedbug is obtained by means of the same manipulation, although the resulting trituration is better known to the followers of the school just mentioned as Cimex lectularius. In this comminuted form the bug is found beneficial in fevers of various sorts. But this same delectable insect has also found favor in another practice, used in puris naturalibus, and five or six of the bugs being administered for a dose, as a cure for chills; and it has likewise enjoyed some notoriety as an emmenagogue. Another insect, not usually mentioned in polite society, also enters into the homoeopathic list of remedies, and this is the head louse (Pediculus capitis). “Prov ings" show that this insect has a remarkable cerebral tendency (as we might suppose), and hence its use is indicated in various forms of severe headache, accompanied by nausea and vertigo.

It is curious to look back at the list of materiae medicae of olden times, when, with vipers, toads, etc., insects held a prominent place, and were administered with as much confidence in their remedial effects as is now bestowed on the vegetable and mineral medicines of the present practice. In those days powdered silk worms were esteemed as invaluable remedies for vertigo and convulsions; earwigs were given to strengthen the nerves; and five gnats were equivalent, as a purge, to three grains of calomel. Bees dried and pul verized were believed to cure the falling ont of the hair (Alopecia), and were also administered internally to promote urine; and for the latter purpose the triturated insects are now used by the homeopaths. These insects, say they, are similar in their action to cantharides, and often succeed when the latter fail. "Still," says the editor of Hull's Jahr, "we have often seen them fail in our own and others' hands, when they seemed fully indicated." Again, in the olden time, powdered scorpions were regarded as an infallible panacea for stone and gravel; and fly water was none the less esteemed as a collyrium in various affections of the eye. The tick was good for erysipelas, and the wasp, from its direct action on the mucous lining of the kidneys and on the neck of the bladder, was a most invaluable diurectic. The lady bird (coccinella) was esteemed as a sovereign remedy for colic and measles, and crushed upon an aching tooth was long regarded as á specific for toothache. The same insect (Coccinella septempunctata) is now officinal in the homeopathic pharmacopeia, and in the form of a trituation is supposed to be useful in swelling of the gums and toothache accom panied by dull headache. Gerbi, a learned Italian professor, assures us that if a finger be once imbued with the juices of a little insect rejoicing in the sesquipedalian name of Rhinebatus antiodontalgicus, it will thereafter retain

its power of curing the toothache for a whole year.

In former days ants were celebrated as specifics against leprosy and deafness, as well as for their aphrodisiac virtues; distilled with spirits of wine they formed the Aqua Magnanimitatis of ancient medicine, a liquor which was believed to give vigor and animation to the whole bodily frame. The same extract of ants was also considered efficacious in strengthening the memory and increasing the power of loving, and it likewise prevented paralysis, and cured ringing in the ears, etc. The chrysalides of ants were said to be diuretic, and they have been used in dropsy. A preparation called "spirit of ants," (Spts. Formicarum) is officinal in the German pharmacopoeia, and was formerly much used internally as a stimulant, just as ammonia is usually employed; but formic acid, which is the active agent in the preparation, is not now regarded with favor by the medical faculty, and is little used.

The cockchafer (Melolontha) of Europe was once highly esteemsd as a remedy for the bite of a mad dog and the plague. Dioscorides is authority for the statement that a plaster of spiders applied to the temples will keep off ague; however this may be, it is certain that these insects are occasionally used as an internal remedy, in pill form, for a like purpose in some of the Bouthern States. Triturations and tinctures of one or two species of spiders (especially the Epeira diadema) are officinal in the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia. Speaking of spiders, reminds as that one species (Tegenaria medicinalis) has been largely employed in the United States instead of the Spanish fly.

The cochineal insect (Coccus cacti) was formerly regarded as a stimulant, antispasmodic and diuretic, and still enters into an old fashioned prescription for whooping cough; but its remedial virtues are so doubtful that it has dropped from the rank of a medicine to that of a mere coloring agent for medicinal preparations. In this capacity, however, it regains something of its lost prestige, for the deeper the tint of the preparation colored with it the stronger the medicine in the imagination of the average patron of the drug store. A similar insect is the kermes (Coccus licis), indigenous to the basin of the Mediterranean, officinal in the French codex, and used for the same purposes as the foregoing.

The only insects that have really managed to hold their own in the struggle for existence in the good graces of the regular practitioner, are the blistering beetles (Cantharis, Mylabris, etc.) These are still extensively used, both as external and internal remedies. In Europe we believe that the Spanish fly (Cantharis vesicatoria) is, with one exception, the only species used; but in the United States, although this same species is almost universally employed, yet several of our American blistering beetles have often been substituted for it with perfect success; these being the striped (Lytta vittata), the ash colored (L. cinerea), the black (L. atrata), and the margined blister beetles (L. marginata). In China the (Mylabris cichorii) has long been employed, and seems also to have been considered the most

powerful vesicatory among the ancients, who, however, appear to have been likewise acquainted with the golden cetonia (cetonia aurata) and some others mentioned by Pliny, A species of Mylabris, very abundant in Bengal, Bahar, and Oude, has been found as equally as efficient as the common Spanish fly; and, in other parts of India, the giant Cantharis (C. gigas) and the violet colored cantharis (C. violacea) are used, as is the red-headed blister beetle (C. rufic ps) in Java and Sumatra. In Brazil the species used is the C. atomaria; in Arabia, the C. Syriaca, and in some parts of Europe the Mylabris trimaculta is employed. The use of one of the blister beetles, the Meloe proscarabaeus, was long recommended as an antidote to hydrophobia, and a pamphlet on the subject was communicated to the Entomological Society of France by M. Fermaire, in 1856; more recently we have seen it stated that this is a favorite remedy of the Arabs for the same disorder, the beetles employed being Meloe tuccius and Mylabris tenebrosa, and the dose being a piece the size of a grain of wheat given to the patient in a piece of meat. Prepared as a trituration, the Spanish fly is used in homoeopathic practice for a like purpose.

Such then are a few of the singular remedies that the ars medica has from time to time made use of. And now the question arises, Will these insect remedies ever come in vogue again? Will they ever partially replace the many roots, herbs and barks which, in one form or another, make up our present materia medica? Perhaps so: who knows? A well known medical author writes thus: "There exists a fashion in medicine, as in other affairs of life, regulated by the caprice and supported by the authority of a few leading practitioners, which has been frequently the occasion of dismissing from practice valuable medicines, and of substituting others less certain in their effects and more questionable in their nature. As years and fashion revolve, so have these neglected remedies, each in its turn, risen again into favor and notice, while old recipes, like old almanacs, are abandoned until the period may arrive that will once more adapt them to the spirit and fashion of the times." So, then, it may be that the coming cockroach is but the precursor of the "innumerable caravan" of bed bugs, cock-chafers, ants, pediculi, and others, that are again moving to the front to assert their right to heal man, instead of being a pest to him.

And it may be, too, that, based on this prac tice a new "pathy" shall arise to supplant one or more of those now in existence, and which shall be called entomopathy. As we before remarked, who knows?-Scientific American.

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