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to 6.7 per cent, whereas in those made on the third day it 

 amounted to 19 per cent, in those on the fourth to 23 per 

 cent in those on the fifth to 31 per cent, and in those on 

 and after the sixth to 33.3 per cent. Professor Paltauf 

 makes mention of the epidemic of diphtheria in Ischl, 

 where in December, 1895, all those children died who had 

 not received the antitoxin treatment; whereas in January, 

 1896, in the cases of 16 children attacked with the disease 

 and treated with antitoxin the result was in every way suc- 

 cessful. — The Lancet. 



A Newly Discovered Constituent of the Blood. — Dr. 

 Muller of Vienna has described certain particles found in 

 the biood under the name of hsemokocia (blood dust). 

 They resemble fat-g-lobules, and thelarg-est are 1-25000 of 

 an inch in diameter. They are motile and are unaffected 

 by osmic acid. 



The Serum Treatment of Cancer. — At a recent meet- 

 ing- of the French Cong-ress of Internal Medicine , M. Du- 

 bois stated that he had introduced frag-ments of cancer 

 taken from human subjects into the cellular tissue of ani- 

 mals. and had obtained several tumors, the larg-est of which 

 weig-hed between seventeen and eig"hteen ounces. The 

 serum of these inoculated animals was then employed in 

 three cases of cancer. In the first case there was non- 

 ulcerative cancer of the breast in which the treatment led 

 to an almost complete recovery after a period of forty-five 

 days. The second case was one of epithelioma of the face, 

 which subsided in thirty-nine days. 



In each case, from two to five cubic centimeters of the 

 serum had been injected in the region of the tumor every 

 three days and a few drops of alcohol with- a very small 

 quantity of iodide had been injected around the tumor in 

 the second case. The third case was one of relapsing- 

 epithelioma of the upper lip, which was very much ulcer- 

 ated and highly inflamed, and after twenty-three days of 

 treatment the progress of the tumor seemed to have been 

 arrested, but it presented no tendency to complete recov- 

 ery From these facts, M. Dubois concludes that the se- 



