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" into the drinking water every day for a fortnight is 

 " the best remedy ; but be careful not to overdo the 

 " dose, or the result will be fatal (!!!): perhaps gum- 

 " arabic dissolved in the water, though less effectual, 

 " will be a safer medicine for the inexperienced to use." 

 Perhaps indeed it would ! Bread might also be a safer 

 remedy than butter for cholera or broken legs. One 

 parallel is as much worth our attention as the other. 

 But, speaking seriously, it is really lamentable that 

 these gentlemen, without the slightest doubt most 

 excellent at their own businesses, should so persistently 

 ignore that wise proverb — iie sutor ult7'a crepidam, and 

 so constantly try to emulate the chimney sweep who 

 posed as an authority on astronomy on the ground 

 that he too looked at the heavens through a blackened 

 tube. 



For cheesy deposits to be found in the lung is 

 somewhat rare : the following case will therefore be 

 interesting. A Baltimore Oriole was bought by a 

 member of the F.B.C. on Nov. 7, 1903, and placed in 

 a cage in which a newly imported Tanager had died a 

 week before, and which had only been merely washed 

 out after the death. On the 21st it seemed very quiet 

 in its manner, was observed to be soft in feather, and 

 to pick over its food without realh'^ eating very much. 

 It died in a tii on the 24th. On examination it was 

 by no means emaciated, and therefore had been ill for 

 only a very short time. The liver and spleen were 

 greatly enlarged and thickly studded with miliary 

 nodules, and both the lungs contained caseous masses, 

 as did also the kidneys and mesentery. There were 

 some small extravasations on the surface of the brain 

 and in the air spaces of the skull bones. Alicro- 

 scopically there were no tubercle bacilli discoverable, 

 but as beautifully illustrative specimens of the bacillus 

 of Septicaemia I have none better than the slides 

 prepared from the lungs and other organs of this 



