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stantl3^ These are: (1) a white fung-us; (2) a yellow fun- 

 g-us; (3) a bacillus subtiliformis; (4) a bacillus in the form 

 of a boat, staining with difficulty ; (5) a special micrococ- 

 cus, which Sabouraud desig-nates provisionally under the 

 name of micrococcus cutis communis; (6) the spore of 

 Malassez, the flask bacillus ofUnna, which he calls the 

 bacillus asciformis. These two microbes, which appear 

 to be the most important, are found in seborrhoics who are 

 not attacked with alopecia areata. No one of these mic- 

 robes would have the importance of a causal ag-ent in the 

 disease. — Medical Record. 



Bacteria and Aerated Water. — Professor Frankland, 

 in Nature, shows the fallaciousness of the prevalent idea 

 that by drinking- aerated water safety from infectious 

 disease is insured. In experiments by Salter, the num- 

 ber of bacteria varied from 200 per cubic centimeter with 

 15 g-rams of carbon dioxide per liter, to 2,000 with 6g-rams 

 per liter. The spores of the anthrax bacilli have been 

 found to survive 154 days in acerated water, but the chol- 

 era bacilli cannot live long-er than three hours. The ty- 

 phoid bacillus requires a period of two weeks to insure its 

 destruction. The author recommends storag^e for a cer- 

 tain period, as time is thereby g-iven for the destruction 

 of the pathog-enic bacilli by the innocuous forms. — Medical 

 News. 



Bacteriology in Private Practice.— Jaques in a paper 

 read before the Chicag-o Medical Society describes a con- 

 venient way of using- Loeffler's blood serum mixture. It 

 consists in the use of small metal boxes, the size of a quar- 

 ter, and several times its thickness, in which the medium 

 is placed and sterilized as if in tubes, and sealed with para- 

 ffin. These can be carried about readily, present a con- 

 siderable surface for inoculation, and can be incubated by 

 carrying- in a pocket near the surface of the bod v. — Chi- 

 cag-o Medical Record. 



The municipality of Paris has chang-ed the name of the 

 Boulevard de Vaug-irard to that of Boulevard Pasteur. 



