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tion the skirt around the proposed site of puncture should be dis- 

 infected by means of a 1 in 40 dilution of carbolic acid. The 

 needle should also previously to its being used be dipped in a 1 in 

 20 dilution of carbolic acid. 



The reaction in tubercular cases consists in a gradual rise of 

 temperature, beginning three to five hours after the injection. In 

 ten to twelve hours it reaches its acme namely, a temperature of 

 102 to 104 Fahr. It may even rise as high as nearly 106 Fahr. 

 Shivering often occurs as the temperature rises, but it is not a 

 constant symptom. Pains in the joints, increase of cough and 

 expectoration, nausea and vomiting, headache, often frontal in 

 position, and great prostration and drowsiness, sometimes deep- 

 ening into stupor, are the symptoms of the reaction. In one in- 

 stance a man who was tuberculous continued in a state of stupor 

 for forty-eight hours after receiving a dose of 0'01 c. c. Slight 

 icterus and a general papular eruption, which has been so very 

 well described by Dr. Radliffe Crocker, in his paper in The Lancet 

 of November 22d, are among the less frequent symptoms which 

 follow the injection. The fever lasts, as a rule, for from fifteen to 

 twenty-four hours, and is accompanied by an increase in the rate 

 of the pulse and of the respiration. The fever gradually declines, 

 and the temperature falls to subnormal, but often rises again to 

 about 100 Fahr., less or more, and then gradually drops to nor- 

 mal. The patient, as a rule, suffers but little after the fever. 

 Cases of lupus best show the local reaction, but, as Dr. Koch has 

 perfectly described all that is meant by the local reaction, it is 

 needless to trouble you now with a repetition of his words. I 

 have also a case to show you which illustrates sufficiently well the 

 early action of the remedy on lupoid tissues. Lancet. 



THE TYRANNY OF THE STATE. 



By SAMUEL WILLIAMS COOPEE. 



THE duties of the individual to society, particularly in the 

 crowded centers of the world, become every day more numer- 

 ous and burdensome. Thousands of bulky volumes do not suffice 

 to contain the common law, the codes, and the countless decisions 

 under the same on this subject. The taking of human life and the 

 throwing down on the street of a piece of waste paper are alike 

 punishable as crimes. If two or three gather together on the cor- 

 ner of a public highway to discuss the many obligations they owe 

 to the sovereign power, and raise their voices loudly, the state, in 

 the form of a blue-coated officer, orders them off, and, if any 

 objection or answer is made, clubs them to the station-house. 



