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practice acts. This precedent of Judge Thompson's, however, will un- 

 doubtedly put a check to further effort in Kentucky, at least, and it is 

 to be hoped in other States as well. 



Osteopaths are not allowed to practice in Indiana as yet, but if such 

 men as L. J. Bobilya (joint Senator Allen and Whitley counties) succeed 

 in obtaining future political preferment, we will have no medical law 

 at all. This philanthropic individual persisted in lending his aid and 

 vote to defeat the present medical bill. 



The New York Legislature has lately been asked to pass a bill to 

 regulate and legalize the practice of osteopathy. We hope it will receive 

 the fate of similar bills in South Dakota, Colorado and Illinois, in case 

 it passes the legislative body, namely, veto. B. Van S. 



ABSTRACTS. 



The Protecting Role of the Lymphatic Nodes in Certain 

 Diseases. — According to M. P. Hahn, in the Normandie Medicals, for 

 February 15 (Independance Medicate, March 9), the role of the ganglion 

 in infection comprises two distinct periods: One of the collection, in which 

 it acts by protecting the part of the economy to which it belongs by a 

 derivation of the virulent product. But soon after becoming hyper- 

 trophied, and having done the work of phagocytosis, it succumbs in its 

 physiological function, and becomes a generating element of extreme 

 danger. 



This course of events undergoes various forms, according to the na- 

 ture of the infection. The ganglion plays a considerable role in syphilis, 

 in which the lymphatic element is shown to be distinctly protective. In 

 enitheliomatous infection, on the other hand, the ganglion assures a re- 

 lapse , and its speedy destruction is extremely necessary. 



Antipyrine and Lactation. — M. Fieux (Revue internationale de mede- 

 cine et de chirurgie pratiques, 1S97, No. IS; Centralbtatt fur Gynakotogle, 

 Feb. 26, 1898) has been led by numerous observations to the following 

 conclusions: Antipyrine undoubtedly enters the milk. Doses of fifteen 

 grains, given twice in the course of two hours, cause persistence of the 

 drug in the milk for five hours. In from nineteen to twenty-three hours 

 no further trace of it can be found; consequently the maximum time re- 

 quired for its disappearance is eighteen hours. Only a small amount 

 enters the milk; at most but three-quarters of a grain are found in a quart, 



