332 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Oct. 



combined nitrog-en. (Archives des Sciences biolog-iques T 

 m. St. Petersburg-, 1895, No. Bott. Centralbl. LXV, 277.) 



MEDICAL MICROSCOPY. 



Diarrhoea in Children and Milk. — It is well-known that 

 milk may g-ive rise to intestinal disorders traced back to 

 the poisonous products produced by micro-org-anisms. 

 Dr. K. Alt indicates in a paper in Deutsch. Med. Noch- 

 euschr, 1896, No.5, that all troubles of this kind need not 

 necessarily be referred back to micro-org-anisms, but in 

 some cases the food consumed by cattle may be responsi- 

 ble for some of this poisoning-. In the cases referred to 

 clover was thoug-ht to have caused the trouble. All pre- 

 cautions for sterilization seem not to have been taken into 

 consideration. Dr. Alt's conclusions are not warranted. 



Tsetse Fly Disease or Nagana in Zululand. — Dr. Bruce 

 claims to have traced the connection of this disease and 

 larg-er domestic animals to one of the Flag-ellatis (Trypan- 

 ^osoma evansi) which is carried over by Tsetse fly. It was 

 shown that the fly was not poisonous, but that when the 

 fly was allowed to take the blood of a diseased dog- it could 

 carry the disease to another animal, dog-, horse, or bovine. 

 ( Centralbl. Bakt. Parasitenk. xix; Abth. I. 955.) 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Medical Botany. — Moquin-Tandon has published an 

 elementary treatise of 543 pag^es on this topic which con- 

 tains numerous fig-ures of medical plants some excellent, 

 others rather poorly executed. The part dealing- with 

 phaenog-ams is g-ood but the part dealing- with cryptog-ams 

 is not up with the times, some rather remarkable state- 

 ments being- made. Just two pag-es are devoted to bacteria 

 Leptothrixfuccales and Merismopidia (Sarcina ventriculi). 

 His information concerning- these is somewhat ancient. 

 Reference is made to this part of the work because it is a 

 sample of what one finds too frequently in so called scien- 

 tific publications. 



