392 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Dec 



MEDICAL MICROSCOPY. 



Yellow Fever. — Walter Barker, U. S. Consul at Sag-ua 

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

 two of the five warehouses used for storing sugar before 

 shipment to the United States are being- used as hospitals 

 for yellow fever and otherinfectious diseases among- Span- 

 ish soldiers. 



Typhoid Fever. — The serum test of typhoid fever has 

 been applied to the detection of typhoid infection in water 

 bv Dr. Waytt Johnson, of Montreal, bacteriolog-ist to the 

 Provincial Board of Health, who has described his methods 

 and promising- results before the Montreal Medico-Chirur- 

 g-ical Societ3^ 



MICROSCOPK AL NOTES. 



It is difficult to freeze a g-erm to death; but boiling- 

 quickly destroys all micro-org-anisms. 



Make it your business to g-et rid of the soil where g-erms 

 may g-row, and the g-erms will seek other pastures. 



Antiseptics are excellent remedies for some one else to 

 rely upon. Better is hot water and plenty of g-ood soap 

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

 bolic acid. 



Professor Virchow, has been elected a foreig-n associ- 

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

 lale 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 fitting-ly remembered 

 at the Institute. 



Sanitation. — 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. 



