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production of a large quantity of saline serosities, derived 

 by exosmosis from the capillaries of the mucous lining of the 

 stomach. This watery exosmosis, in the opinion of M. Le- 

 vin, is the cause of dyspepsia in most cases; and the treat- 

 ment consists in retarding the secretion, for which purpose 

 sulphate of soda, bromide of potassium, and common salt, in 

 small doses of twenty-five to fifty centimeters, may be em- 

 ployed, adding to this a treatment particularly nitrogenous. 

 M. Levin claims to have cured various invalids who have 

 been ill for many years. 15 C, vi., 95. 



MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF ADULTERATED MILK. 



It is stated by Professors Zoller and Rissmiiller that while 

 large, medium-sized, and small, round butter globules appear, 

 under the microscope, to fill normal milk, they seem much 

 less crowded, although present of different sizes, in milk di- 

 luted with water, according to the degree of dilution. The 

 presence of only medium-sized and small globules indicates 

 that the milk has been skimmed after standing a short time, 

 while milk skimmed after twenty-four hours exhibits separate 

 groups of the small globules only. By standing four hours, 

 under favorable conditions, at a temperature of 64 to 68, 

 milk parts with forty per cent, of its fatty matter, and as 

 much as eighty-eight per cent, by standing twenty-four hours. 

 The cream in the first case consists chiefly of the larger glob- 

 ules, and is poor in fatty matter; that in the latter case con- 

 tains also the mass of the medium and small srlobules, and 

 double the fatty matter. A plate with microscopic illustra- 

 tions of normal milk, and that skimmed after four and twen- 

 ty-four hours, is given by the authors. 28 C, July, 1873, 54. 



CURE FOR LUMBAGO. 



Dr. Hamon gives an account of a speedy cure of an ex- 

 tremely painful case of lumbago, caused by taking cold when 

 the body was in a state of perspiration. The patient, who 

 called to see him, could scarcely descend from his carriage, on 

 account of the torture which the slightest movement caused 

 him. As the malady seemed to consist of congestion of 

 blood under the surface of the skin, the treatment proposed 

 was the use of a mechanical cupping-glass, by means of which 

 about 2250 grains of blood were taken away in ten minutes. 



