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BACTERIOLOGY. 



Exhibitions of Cholera Bacilli.— Dr. J. H. Gottlieb, Pro- 

 fessor of Microscopy in New York Medico- Legal Laborator\', 

 having recently exhibited some cholera bacilli at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, the matter was reported to the 

 Board of Health, and Dr. H. M. Briggs, pathologist to the 

 Board, was asked to make an investigation. On his report, the 

 the Board passed a resolution at its meeting, April 26, prohib- 

 iting public ex;hibitions of such bacilli in the future. 



The Pasteur Institute. — This institute has been removed 

 from West 10th Street to its new quarters facing Central Park 

 at West 97th Street. The building is a model structure erected 

 expressly for the purposes of the institute. It is six stories in 

 height, and has a frontige of 26 feet on 97th Street, and 100 feet 

 on Central Park. On the first floor are the parlor, reception- 

 room, operating-room, laboratories and the private offices of the 

 director ; on the sixth floor are the dining-rooms, kitchen, laun- 

 dry and s'^rvants' appartments. The other floors will be occu- 

 pied by patients undergoing treatment. On the roof there is a 

 superstructure of iron^ where animals used in obtaining virus 

 for inoculations will be kept. — 31. and S. Journal. 



MEDICAL MICROSCOPY. 



Medical Aspects of the Borden Case. — The matter of 

 blood-stains so far as an identification of human blood-corpuscles 

 was concerned had a secondary importance in this trial. Num- 

 erous weapons were in evidence; but they were all found to be 

 free from blood-stains, although most of them presented spots 

 of rust or other discoloration that at first view were suspicious. 

 The only spot of blood found on the clothing of the accu-^ed was 

 a minute dot, not larger than the head of a small pin, situated 

 on the back part of a white underskirt; the corpuscles in this 

 stain showed a micro-metric diameter "consistent with" that of 

 human blood-disks, but also not to be distinguished from the 

 blood of menstruation. — Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. 



Tuberculosis is very common in domestic fowls, but, strangely 

 they do notematiate under it as does the human subject. 



