22 The Microscope. 



for something better from Dr. Klein and must confess tjiat this 

 so-called auto-experiment gives us no great idea of the discern- 

 ment and powers of criticism of the above named gentleman." 



And the British Medical Journal, fully appreciating how 

 ridiculous the affair is, states that everybody in London laughs 

 at the experiments. 



Such experiments prove little or nothing. If the experi- 

 mentalist suffers nothing it is more reasonable to suppose that 

 the infective matter did not find a proper soil for development; 

 that the material taken does not possess specific qualities is not 

 to be directly inferred. — Ex. 



A Criticism from India on the Cholera Bacillus.— The 

 In. Med. Gazette, in the course of an elaborate review of Koch'a 

 work and discovery, says: "A review of the whole evidence 

 brought forward by the German Cholera Commission shows 

 that they have only succeeded in establishing the fact that a 

 peculiar form of bacillus is normal to the intestines of choltra 

 patients; but the exact part which this organism plays in the 

 morbid process is left wholly undetermined. Only a very mod- 

 erate degree of probability has been made out in favor of this 

 bacillus being the cause of cholera; but the futility of trusting 

 to probabilities and conjecture in an etiological inquiry into 

 cholera is generally well recognized. The problem, therefore, 

 of the causation of cholera still remaining unsolved, it awaits 

 and ought to receive that careful attention which its great im- 

 portance demands." It is not fair to depreciate the value of 

 Koch's discovery; but, on the other hand, it will do no good to 

 give to it any greattr weight than the evidence strictly justi- 

 fies. — Medical Record. 



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