126 THE MICROSCOPE. Aug. 



The one gallon red rubber fountain syringe, made by tlie India Rubber Comb Co., has 

 >>een selected. It is thoroughly good. 



Peroxide of Hydrogen (Marchand's) and the Glycozone are standard preparations. 

 Codeine is generally administered in tablets. 

 Liquid soap is adapted for medical uses. 

 Horlick's malted milk is a prejtared food of merit. 



THE MICROSCOPE. 



New Series, 1893. 



For Naturalists, Physicians, and Druggists, and Designed to Popularize 



Microscopy. 



Published monthly. Price $1.00 per annum. Subscriptions should end 

 with the year. The old series, consisting of 12 volumes {i88i-j8g2), ended 

 xvith December, i8g2. Sets of the old series cannot be furnished. All 

 correspondence, exchanges, and books for notice should be addressed to the 

 Microscopical Publishing Co., Washington, D. C, U. S. A. 



CHARLES W. SMILEY, A. M., EDITOE. 



EDITORIAL. 



Communion Cups Spread Disease. — The common goblet 

 is a channel for the transmission of several serious and deadly 

 diseases. The bacteria of tuberculosis, diptheria, and other con- 

 tagions lodge in the mouth, and are transmitted to the Avine by 

 means of epithelium scales which drop from the lips of a com- 

 municant into a common goblet at the communion service. 

 These scales float on the surface of the wine, unnoticed, and if 

 a communicant is unfortunate enough to swallow one, the germ 

 may take root in his system. 



In passing the cup through the congregation, both the healthy 

 and the unhealthy drink from it. If a communicant should 

 happen to be suffering from any of the diseases that lodge 

 their germs in the mouth, the most liable thing will be to drop 

 the ephithelium scale into the wine, and then pass the goblet 

 to his neighbor, who taking the wine drinks it unexpectingly. 



Dr. C. Forbes, an eminent bacteriologist, has done more than 

 any other man in America to bring about a change. He is a 

 member of the Central Presbyterian church of Rochestsr, which 

 was the first congregation in the country to adopt the new pro- 



