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ued use of certain substances, such as Paullinia (guarana) in 

 large quantity. Such a treatment, however, according to the 

 author, is incomplete, as it has no reference either to the in- 

 termittence or to the pain, which are to be antagonized by 

 the other substances recommended. 12 _Z?, Jan. 30, 1875, 92. 



CURABILITY OF PULMONARY DISEASE. 



Pietra Santa, in a communication to the Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Paris, takes occasion to contest the doctrine of the 

 incurability of pulmonary disease, which in his opinion is an 

 affection essentially general and constitutional, an alteration 

 of the function of nutrition, and a disease of the blood. 

 While there is no panacea for this affection, he thinks that 

 many cases may be greatly alleviated, and, indeed, entirely 

 cured, by following a rational treatment. This consists in 

 the intelligent and reasonable use of sundry medicaments, 

 of winch experiment and clinical observation have shown 

 the efficiency, and which may be summed up in the follow- 

 ing precepts : 



First, in all periods of the disease the assistance is to be 

 invoked of suitable hygienic and moral treatment, a pure 

 atmosphere, a tonic diet, moderate exercise, and the use of 

 milk for food. Second, the administration of certain mineral 

 waters. Third, a salutary change of place and of migration, 

 always into southern temperate regions during winter, and 

 to mountainous countries in the summer. Fourth, the use 

 of hyposulphites and the alkaline sulphites for the treatment 

 of the tuberculous matter developed in the lungs. Fifth, 

 calling into play numerous agencies of general therapeutics, 

 when they can be employed to meet the various complica- 

 tions connected with each period of the disease. 6 -Z>, No- 

 vember 2, 1874, 979. 



RELATION OF BACTERIA TO PUTREFACTIVE DISEASE. 



Dr. Klein, of the Brown Institution, in London, lias pub- 

 lished a paper in reference to the relation of bacteria to pu- 

 trefactive diseases, and has found, in the course of certain 

 investigations upon the small -pox of the sheep, that the 

 lymphatic vessels of the loose tissue beneath the skin, and 

 elsewhere, are occupied by the branching filaments of a fun- 

 gus-like organism. In the pustules which form on the sur- 



