92 THE Microscope. 
which persisted for five weeks. A small quantity injected into 
the orbital cellular tissue gave no result. 
Cicero TaLKIne About Dentistry.—Fditor Christian Ad- 
vocate: Below find a quotation from Cicero “on the laws,” 
page 450, bearing on teeth, in which you may be interested. 
The “ Twelve Tables,” from which it seems to be taken, were 
enacted about B. C. 450: “ And since in the law there was this 
clause, that gold should not be buried with the dead, how hu- 
man is the exception made by another law, that 77 the teeth of 
the deceased were fastened with gold, the corpse might be buried 
or burned without taking it away, and no wrong be done.” 
Tricutnosis.—At the last quarterly meeting of the Illinois 
State Board of Health, three outbreaks of trichinosis—one of 
them resulting in three deaths—were reported, the first during 
the early part of November, in a family near Gardner, Grundy 
county ; the second and third during December, in Woodburn, 
Macoupin county, and in Bloomington, respectively. The Gard- 
ner and Bloomington cases resulted from eating uncooked pork 
and sausage, and the Woodburn cases from raw smoked saus- 
age. Specimens of the meat from Gardner and Woodburn were 
sent to the secretary for examination, the character of the dis- 
ease being only suspected, until the microscope showed, in one 
case, about 2,000, and in the other, about 8,000 trichinz to the 
cubic inch. 
CILIA IN THE HumAN Kipnry.—That a large portion of the 
renal tubules in cold-blooded vertebrates is ciliated has been 
known for some time. It has also keen known, from the obser- 
vations of Bowman and others, that the neck of the Malpighi- 
an capsule in mammals is ciliated. A. H. Tuttle found, from 
the examination of a large number of sections of human kid- 
neys, that the convoluted tubule is very extensively, if not 
generally, ciliated. Where the flat lining-cells of the capsule 
approach the neck, they become cuboidal and ciliated also. 
The cilia in the kidney are from 3.5 to 5 » long, very fine, nu- 
merous, and closely set. Confirmatory observations were made 
on the kidney of a kitten. The cilia are probably present in all 
mammalia, and serve to propel the urine outwards or towards 
the ureter.—C. S. IL, in Science. 
