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cells), are also brought out. Golgi reports having had good results 

 from the application of this treatment to the cortex of the cerebrum, 

 negative results in the case of the spinal cord, and but slight success 

 with the cerebellum. The author calls the reaction an apparently 

 black one, inasmuch as the elements on which it has taken effect 

 appear white under surface illumination, and black only by trans- 

 mitted light. — Royal Alicroscopical Journal. 



Are there any cases where elastic fibres are found in the sputa 

 of patients other than consumptive ? Yes. Such a case has been 

 under my observation lately, in which I was somewhat at a loss to 

 account for the occasional presence of elastic and non-elastic lung 



fibres, and yet which I deem to be non-tuberculous. Mr. N , 



Swede, printer of engravings, 55 years old, short, stout, chest large, 

 muscles well developed, formerly considered a giant in strength 

 while a seafaring man, consulted me for severe hccmorrhages of the 

 lungs, cough, irritation of throat and nose, flabbiness of muscles, 

 weakness, etc. A careful physical exploration of the case revealed 

 the signs of an hypertrophied heart approaching, if not, fatty de- 

 generation; ulceration on right side of vomer — post pharyngeal wall, 

 small tumor on epiglottis tip; some crepitant rales, not very distinct, 

 over both lungs, but no marked signs of lung necrosis. The blood 

 had the morphology of syphilitic blood, but not the morphology of 

 consumptive blood, etc. — Abstract from Dr. Cutler's article in Am- 

 erican Journal of Microscopy. 



Septicemia. — In septicaemia the blood is rarely found to con- 

 tain bacteria, as a rule, only near the wound, from which the disease 

 takes its origin. Vogt met with crowds of ball bacteria in blood 

 taken from the skin of a pyeemic patient, near the point at which 

 amputation had been performed, as also in pus from a metastatic 

 abscess in the wrist, while very few were discovered in blood taken 

 from other parts of the same patient. The pathological alterations 

 found in animals killed by inoculation with septicaemic blood closely 

 resemble those of septicaemia in man, since they are developed in 

 the form of peritonitis, pleuritis, intumescence of the spleen, pneu- 

 monia, renal congestion, jaundice, and hyperaemia of the intestines; 

 but their blood rarely exhibits bacteria; perhaps minute granules of 

 a dubious nature. Finally, all symptoms of septicaemia may be 

 present without the appearance of bacteria in the blood. Wolff 

 saw cases of acute pyaemia and septicaemia in which the blood was 

 free from bacteria, although the pus of the wound contained them 

 and brought about fatal effects when inoculated upon healthy ani- 

 mals. — Medical Herald. 



