THE MICROSCOPE. 



and ivory points were used. He usually vaccinnates two persons 

 with one double-dipped ivory point. Whenever one of these 

 vaccinnations runs a normal course the other one does also ; if one 

 of the pair should suffer severe symptoms, the other would also. He 

 has noticed that whenever the points present, to the unaided eye, 

 evidences of blood or semi-purulent matter that they are invariably 

 the source of much mischief, hence they are discarded altogether. A 

 microscopical examination would have aided in the matter perhaps. 



DIPHTHERIA. 



DR. GAUTHIER of St. Paul, Minn., tells in the Chicago Medical 

 Review of his success in an epidemic of diphtheria by the use 

 of iodine. He has treated 200 cases with but two deaths, while be- 

 fore adopting this method he lost one third of all his cases. The 

 treatment is as follows: The patient is ordered tincture iodine in 

 ten to twelve drop doses every hour, well diluted with water, so long 

 as the fever lasts, subsequently reducing to ten drops every two, and 

 finally every three hours. Local applications are made use of at the 

 same time. These latter should be made by the physician at least 

 twice a day. For internal use the decolorized tincture is used. 

 Bread and starchv articles of diet are used in abundance. 



SALE OF CHICORY FOR COFFEE. 



A PROVISION dealer of Higher Hillgate, Stockport, was arrested 

 and charged with selling adulterated coffee. Mr. Jacob Marshal, 

 one of the town sanitary officers, purchased of the dealer, Wm. 

 Morley, one-half a pound of ground coffee and paid seven cents for 

 the same. A microscopical examination was made which showed a 

 large per cent, of chicory present. The defendant pleaded ignorance 

 of the strict adulteration laws in England, admitting that he knew 

 the coffee was not pure for he himself had mixed the chicory with it, 

 but he did not for a moment suppose that he would have to label it 

 as a mixture of chicory and coffee. The presiding magistrate 

 decided that it was a great fraud upon the public to sell an article 



