392 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Dec 



MEDICAL MICROSCOPY. 



Yellow Fever. — Walter Barker, U. S. Consul at Sagfua 

 la Grande, Cuba, reports to Surg-eon General Wyman, that 

 two of the live warehouses used for storing- sugar before 

 shipment to the United States are being used as hospitals 

 for yellow fever and other infectious diseases among Span- 

 ish soldiers. 



Typhoid Fever. — The serum test of typhoid fever has 

 been applied to the detection of typhoid infection in water 

 by Dr. Waytt Johnson, of Montreal, bacteriologist to the 

 Provincial Board of Health, who has described his methods 

 and promising results before the Montreal Medico-Chirur- 

 gical Society. 



MICROSCOPICAL NOTES. 



It is difficult to freeze a germ to death; but boiling 

 quickly destroys all micro-organisms. 



Make it your business to get rid of the soil where germs 

 may grow, and the germs will seek other pastures. 



Antiseptics are excellent remedies for some one else to 

 rely upon. Better is hot water and plenty of good soap 

 and sapolio than a solution of bichloride of mercury or car- 

 bolic acid. 



Professor Virchow, has been elected a foreign associ- 

 ate of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the place of the 

 late Dr. Tchebitchef. 



The Prussian government will assist the fresh-water 

 biological station at Plon after October, 1898. 



Pasteur. — September, 29, 1897, was the second aniver- 

 sary of Pasteur's death, and it was fittingly remembered 

 at the Institute. 



Scinitation. — A proprietor of a barber shop has very 

 justly been fined £ 5 and costs for attending- to his busi- 

 ness while still passing through the peeling stag-e of scar- 

 let fever. 



