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BACTKRIOLOfiY. 



Exhibitions of Cholera Bacilli. — Dr. .J. II. Gottlieb. Pro- 

 fessor of M it lot^copy in New York Me'lico- Legal Laboratory, 

 havinfj recently exbiV)ited some cholera bacilli at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, the matter was reported to the 

 Board of Health, and Dr. H. M. Britrf^s, pathologist to the 

 Board, was asked to make an investigation. Onliis report, tiie 

 the Board passed a resolution at its meeting, April 26, prohib- 

 iting public exhibitions of such bacilli in the future. 



The Pasteur Institute. — This institute has been removed 

 from West Kttli Street to its new quarters facing Central Park 

 at West 97th Street. The building is a model structure erected 

 expressly for the pu'"poses of the institute. It is six stories in 

 height, and has a frontage of 26 feet on 97th Street, and 100 feet 

 on Central Park. On the first floor are the parlor, reception- 

 room, operating-room, laboratories and the private offices of the 

 director ; on the sixth floor are the dining-rooms, kitchen, laun- 

 dry and S'^rvants' appartments. The other floors will be occu- 

 pied by patients undergoing treatment. On the roof there is a 

 superstructure of iron, where animals used in obtaining virus 

 for inoculations will be kept. — M. and S. Journal. 



MEDICAL MICROSCOPY. 



Medical Aspects of the Borden Case. — The matter of 

 blood-stains so far as an identification of human blood-corpuscles 

 was concerned had a secondary importance in this trial. Num- 

 erous weapons were in evidence; but they were all found to be 

 free from blood-stains, although most of them presented spots 

 of rust or other discoloration that at first view were suspicious. 

 The only spot of blood found on the clothing of the accu-ed was 

 a minute dot, not larger than the head of a small pin, situated 

 on the back part of a white underskirt ; the corpuscles in this 

 stain showed a micro-metric diameter "consistent with" that of 

 human blood-disks, but also not to be distinguished from the 

 blood of menstruation. — Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. 



Tuberculosis is very common in domestic fowls, but, strangely 

 they do notematiate under it as does the human subject. 



