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bers. This club is composed of students of Albion College. 
Not daring to include the two members of the faculty whose 
faces we recognize, we would venture to say of the remaining 
ladies and gentlemen, that they are “a fine looking lot of boys 
and girls, and, znter nos, sub rosé, especially the girls.” 
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SELECTIONS. 
BACTERIAL PATHOLOGY. 
With the conviction that a little humorous dessert will con- 
tribute to the digestion of the numerous. therapeutic dishes 
served to our readers by the Gazette, we present to them some 
choice morsels picked from Dr. Nordau’s interesting Parisian 
epistle to our Viennese contemporary, the Wiener Med. Woch- 
enschrift, No. 8, 1886. 
“The last of the valiant and dreaded enemies has surren- 
dered. Stricker has hoisted the white flag and entered the camp 
of the microbio-pathologists with flying colors. He was one of 
those who had fought most bitterly and more persistently against 
the new faith, objection to which is at the present day only ex- 
cusable in the man born blind, for he alone is not open to the 
anti-oculos demonstrations of the microscope, the test-tube, and 
the pure-culture. But lo! there is still one pagan knight who 
is not to be converted, not to be conquered. Boldly and proudly 
he upholds the banner of the humoral (or is humorous now the 
proper adjective?) pathology. Not he that fears the impinging 
phalanges of the bacilli, shrinks before the spirille pickets, or 
loses his sang-froid at the approach of swarming spirochetez. 
This knight sans peur et sans reproche is Peter, Prof. Peter of 
the Faculty of Paris. Like Horatius Cocles, he fights alone 
against an army. Maybe, however, he only wishes to carry out 
- Victor Hugo’s heroic words: ‘ Kt s’il n’en reste qu’un, je serai 
lui-la!’—And if but oneis to remain, it shallbe I. We all know 
of the reverend Pastor Knack, who bravely called Copernicus 
a liar, and defended the rotation of the sun around the earth. 
Knack’s death was a hard blow to the humorous papers, still 
Peter is alive, that is some substitution. Peter’s opening lecture 
of the last winter course, before the crowded auditorium, will 
