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found in his stomach, the accepted inference is that while 

 faint from the shock of the injection he was unable to eject 

 the vomited matter from his throat, and instead drew it 

 into the air-passag"es with fatal effect. 



It may be concluded, then, that what appeared to be quite 

 damag'ing evidence against the serum was really the result 

 of a very simple accident. — Medical News. 



Tuberculouc Cows Destroyed. — A report has been 

 made by Chief inspector Martin upon the sanitary condi- 

 tion of all cows within the city limits, and the condition of 

 the premises where they are kept. Below the Harlem 

 there are one hundred and sixteen different locations, in 

 which a total of three hundred and forty-three cows are 

 stabled. Out of one hundred and fifty-three examinations 

 made with a tuberculin test, twenty-eight tuberculous cows 

 were found and destroyed. The post-mortem examina- 

 tion confirmed the test in eveay single instance. The 

 health of a large number of persons ha« been in danger 

 from the milk supplied from these sources, and it is sin- 

 cerely to be desired that the work thus entered upon may 

 be pursued until it becomes no longer possible for so many 

 diseased animals to exist at any time, either within the 

 city's limits or in herds from which the city's milk supply 

 is drawn. 



English Ice Cream. — Certain confectioners and restaura- 

 teurs have a way of advertising their ice cream of extra 

 richness as Philadelphia or New York ice cream, and 

 charging the credulous with an extra price for the same. 

 But for real denseness of richness the ice-cream of our 

 sister cities is not likely to reach the standard of real 

 London ices. 



Dr. MacFayden and Mr. Collyer have recently com- 

 pleted for the British Institute of Preventive Medicine an 

 investigt'tion into the nature and quality of the creams 

 vended on the streets of Eondon. "They report," says 

 the Medical Record, "that ice cream has only 26.5 per cent 

 of solids, the rest being water; that the solids consist of 

 fats, four per cent, sugar, twelve per cent, starch, six per 



