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Univ. of Heidelberg; died of pneumonia while engaged in Red-Cross 

 Service. 



Hugo Lüthje, chief of the Med. Clinic, Kiel Univ., author of 

 exhaustive studies of nutritional diseases; died of typhus contracted 

 during a visit of inspection to a camp of Russian prisoners. 



University items. Dr. V. E. Henderson, pro f. of pharm, and 

 pharmacol., Univ. of Toronto, commands the detention camp at 

 Kapuskasing, Ontario. 



Among the British scientific men in mihtary service are Dr. /. A. 

 Gunn (reader in pharmacol., Oxford), Lieut. R.A.M.C, and Sir 

 Wm. Osler (regius prof. of med. Oxford), Hon. Col. S. Midland 

 Div. R.A.M.C. 



Dr. /. George Adami (prof. of pathol., McGill Univ.), is now 

 serving as a member of the British War Office, having charge of the 

 preparation of a medical history of the war. 



Booze bombs. Prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the 

 French army. The example set months ago by Russia, on the 

 " liquor question," has been f ollowed by other nations. The f ollow- 

 ing note relates to conditions in France. " An order of Gen. Gallieni, 

 mil. gov. of Paris, forbidding the sale of alcoholic drinks to soldiers 

 garrisoning the defences of Paris, was published in July. Now, 

 when the physical and moral energy of soldiers ought to be carried 

 to their highest degree of intensity, the order explains, it is important 

 that the campaign against alcohol, which destroys both, should be 

 carried on without faltering. Hence it is forbidden to seil alcohol 

 and alcoholic drinks (absinthe, vermuth, bitters, aperitifs, liqueurs, 

 etc.) to soldiers of any grades. Liquor sellers will have their estab- 

 lishments closed temporarily for the first offense and permanently 

 for the second." Paris letter: Joiir. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1915, 

 Ixv, p. 636. 



On beer and brandy in the German army. " In the Journal 

 {Amer. Med. Assoc), Mdij 15, 191 5, p. 1663, appears editorial com- 

 ment entitled ' Alcohol in the European Armies,' which is based on 

 figures obtained from the British Med. Jour. discussing the daily 

 consumption of alcohol by the armies in the field. So far as these 

 figures are intended to apply to the Gennan troops, they are without 

 basis and fact. It is said, in the edit. comment, that the German 



