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.7ge q improeemeat-Cafe for q broken nsck-Doctor Harrison of London. has published a letter in the Lancet, in which he states that < more than thirty years since, on taking my evening walk, l heard cries for help al short distance. l ran to the spot, and saw a man lying on the ground. A horse was standing near. and the by islanders said the man had just fallen aud broken his neck F was apparently quite dead. Iplaead n2 knees against his shoul- ders, and asrasp5ag h!s chin and the back of his head firmly between my hands, proceed ed b stretch his neck with all my strength. The patient immediately moved his limbs, in two or three minutes raised himself from the ground, stared vacantly, remounted his horse, and rode home, distance of nine miles" The Doctor mentions two other instances in which life has been restored by the same means, under similar circnulstan- ccs. In one of the cases mentioned, the dislocation was reduced bya lady,

 The New York Mercantile remarks, in reference to this statement--"We can see no reason why this may not be true. The instantaneous death which is supposed to occur upon the disloeation of the vertebrae of the neck, may only be in fact a suspen- sion ofanimation, produced by a pressure upon the spinal marrow, which if speedily removed, may not be fatal. At all events, the experiment is worthy of trial, which any one should have presence of mind enough to give it if occaslono ofeted."

 