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the end of the tube. Schiefferdecker states that while this little 
lamp is quite convenient, the light is too yellowish-red, and that if 
this is corrected with colored glass, the light is not intense enough 
for the use of high powers. He has therefore suggested that the 
Auer gas-light with corrective glasses be used, and Wolz is now 
experimenting in this direction. 
Wurman (American Naturalist) finds that Labarraque’s 
solution, hypochlorite of sodium, is an excellent solvent for the 
gelatinous envelope of the amphibian egg. He employs a 10 per 
per cent. solution diluted with five or six times its volume of water. 
Care must be taken not to expose the eggs too long to the solvent 
action of the fluid. 
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Bacrerio- THErapy or Spientc Frver.t—A. D. Pawlowsky 
has published a contribution to the study of ‘‘bacterio- 
therapy,” in which he states that he has finally concluded, 
after a long series of experiments, that it is possible to cure 
splenic fever by means of bacteria. Splenic fever, anthrax, charbon, 
malignant pustule, or bloody murrain, as the disease is variously called, 
is an acute infectious disease, affecting herbivora and omnivera for the 
most part, but communicable to other mammals, including man. 
The specific cause of the disease has been proved to be the bacillus 
of anthrax, or its spores. Inoculations as a prophylactic against 
anthrax were first instituted by Burdon Sanderson and others in 
1878. The results obtained by these experiments were very success- 
ful. Other methods have since been tried, but probably that of 
Toussaint is as simple and effective as any. The latter consists of 
heating the virus for one hour, at a temperature of 131° F., so as to 
diminish its activity, and then inoculating the animals to be pro- 
tected. Pawlowsky, however, seems to have developed some new 
points in his experiments. From a review of his paper in the 
Deutsche Medizinal-Zeitung, November 14, 1887, we learn that cure of 
the local anthrax can be obtained by means of a series of subcutaneous 
injections of different microérganisms, at the point at which the 
disease originated or in the neighborhood of these. The most 
powerful antagonist to the anthrax bacillus was found to be 
* Under this heading will be included all Abstracts relating to the Histology 
of Diseased Tissues, both Animal and Vegetable., 
+ Virchow’s Archiv, Bd. CVIIT, Heft 3. Medical and Surgical Reporter, Phila. 
