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those that had previously been infected if administered 

 within twelve hours after the inoculation. Yersin has re- 

 cently reported the successful treatment of a man who was 

 attacked by a severe type of the disease. The French 

 Consul at Hong- Kong- performed the same operation upon 

 two other pupils at the Catholic Mission with success. 



Baldness Microbe. — One of the physicians at a hospital 

 in Paris has, it is stated, discovered a microbe of the skin 

 which accounts for baldness. It appears that baldness 

 attacks those whose skin exudes an excessive amount of 

 fat or oil, and the parts affected are washed with ether and 

 other solutions, myriads of small microbes may be seen 

 similar in length (!) to the tuberculosis bacillus. This par- 

 ticular skin microbe varies in size according to its age and 

 position. For instance, on the scalp it is smaller than on 

 the face or the body, but the structure remains always 

 the same. The doctor has inoculated a sheep and a rab- 

 bit with the skin microbe at the Pasteur Institute, and he 

 will make known the results of his experience to the Society 

 of Dermatology. It is stated that there are three or four 

 therapeutic agents capable of destroying- the fatty sub- 

 stance of the skin complained of. 



MEDICAL MICROSCOPY. 



The Klebs-Loeffler Bacillus in Apparently Normal 

 Throats and Noses.— W. H. Gross (University Medical 

 Magazine, October, 1896) presents an interesting report 

 of some observations made in the Children's Hospital of 

 Boston. During six months ending June 1, 1896, culture 

 examinations were made from the throats and noses of all 

 cases entering the hospital; two cultures, twenty-four 

 hours apart, being taken on admission, and subsequently 

 repeated once weekly as long as the case remained in the 

 hcluse, unless the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus was found, in 

 which case daily examinations were made until three suc- 

 cessive negative cultures, twenty-four hours apart, were 

 obtained. The work was undertaken with the object of 



