T89fi] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 397 



EDITORIAL. 



Wisdom vs. Knowledge. — In the address of Rev. W. J. 

 Holland, which we have thoug-ht worthy of a place on pages 

 368-70 it will be noticed that he weclomed the Microscopists 

 to Pittsburg- aj5 persons, "who are wiser then Solomon." 

 Being- a clerg-yman as well as a scientist he probably knows 

 the difference between Wisdom and Knowledg-e and would 

 readily admit that he used the word "wiser" improperly. 



No one can deny that our scientists have very much 

 more knowledg-e of nature than Solomon possessed. Dr. 

 Holland well illustrates this fact. But knowledg-e is not 

 wisdom and many of the learned men of today are notor- 

 iously lacking- in wisdom. Many of the scientists deny 

 the possibility of that element which disting-uishes wisdom 

 from knowledg-e. Hence their frequent use of the two 

 words as synomymous — a most g-rievous fault. These 

 are not the columns in which to describe the characters 

 of wisdom. Suffice the protest and statement that there 

 is a g"ulf between wisdom and knowledg-e. The micro- 

 scopists cannot be flattered properly with having- a tenth 

 of the wisdom of Solomon, but they have vast stores of 

 knowledg-e which he did not possess. 



MICROSCOPICAL MANIPULATION. 



Smegma Bacilli and Tubercle Bacilli. — Mendelsohn 

 reports a case in which the patient's urine contained much 

 pus and g-ranular detritus. The urine from the rig-ht 

 ureter was clear, while cystoscopy demonstrated that the 

 pus and detritus escaped from the left ureter. Tubercle 

 bacilli were found in the urine. Nevertheless, the extir- 

 pation revealed a stone in the diseased kidney and no 

 evidence of tuberculosis. 



Von Leyden calls attention to the frequency with which 

 the bacillus tuberculosis has been confused with the smeg-ma 

 bacillus, especially as the two have certain morpholog-ical 

 resemblances and their staining- reactions are not dissimilar 



