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ing with hearty voices in the ringing plaudits of praise to the man 
who has robbed the disease of its terror, and who daily gives hope 
and joy to those who were otherwise doomed to die most miserably, 
or to suffer even worse tortures of mental distress and gloomy fore- 
bodings. 
Pasteur has been most unjustly charged with keeping his 
method secret. Nothing can be further from the truth. He has 
fully published his processes, and has generously given instruction 
to several qualified surgeons, and maganimously furnished them 
with his prepared materials. In gratitude for his achievements, 
the City of Paris has given him land, and donations are rapidly 
accumulating from all quarters for a large international hospital 
for his use, named the “Institution Pasteur.” Pasteur hospitals 
are also in process of founding in Italy, Austria, Prussia and 
America, each having already received the modified virus and 
methods of operation from Pasteur himself. 
Tue Microscope In PHarmacy.—lIt is undeniable that the 
microscope will be one of the important instruments of the drug 
store of the future. As already refered to, drugs now come into 
the market in such altered conditions that the naked eye cannot 
recognize them. This gives great opportunities for adulteration, 
and microscopy is the most convenient path out of the difficulty. 
The instrument will grow more and more popular each year, as the 
profession becomes better educated and the public learns the im- 
portance of guarding against inferior or adulterated drugs. Even 
at the present time the importance to the pharmacist of the study 
of microscopy is quite generally recognized. The leading colleges 
of pharmacy have laboratories equipped with facilities for giving 
the students instruction in thi shighly interesting and valuable 
study.—H. M. Whelpley in Nat. Druggist. 
Equine Revapsinc Fever.—Another illustration of the im- 
portance and practical use of the microscope in all departments of 
the healing art, is to be found in the report of J. H. Steele, A. V. 
D., veterinary surgeon. During the years 1883 and 1884, the trans- 
port mules in British Burmah became affected with a fatal disease, 
which in two stations, Rangoon and Tounghoo, carried off one-hun- 
dred and eighty-two animals, which represented a loss of 30,000 
rupees. This affected the means of transport to such a degree» 
