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Rays, and electric princii)les in the treatment of diseases), 

 g-iven b}' well known scientists. 



The Committee of Arrang-ements has surprises in store 

 for the social element in the way of receptions and ex- 

 cursions. 



The exhibition promises to be a g-ood feature and of 

 more than usual interest. 



Pasteur's Nonsense. — Such is the title of a short article 

 I)ul)lished in the Medical Ag-e, Aug-ust 10th. The author, 

 Dr. J. J. Lawrence, thinks that Pasteur was the most co- 

 lossal humbug of this ag^e. He (Pasteur) fathered a 

 theory which switched the medical profession off the 

 broad avenue of therapeutic, along- which it was making- 

 such g-ratifying prog-ress, on the blind siding- of bacteriol- 

 og-y. The doctor says that: "Pasteur was not a g-reat 

 man, nor even a learned man, but he was g-ifted with g-reat 

 shrewdness and that he obtained all his success by beings 

 backed up by g-overnmental endorsement." Dr. J. J. Law- 

 rence cannot find any g-ood in Pasteur's works. 



Well, we shall advise him to take up the study of bacter- 

 iolog-y and to follow the way opened by Pasteur and in 

 which so many men have acquired world-wide reputation. 



Also, w^e would like to tell him that the words of the poet 

 are of very little use to the student of technical science. 



The Laryngoscope. — We have just received No. 1, vol. 

 1, of the Laryng-oscope, a journal devoted entirely to the 

 consideration of diseases of the nose, throat and ear. 

 It is a monthly and it is published in St. Louis, Mo. — Scien- 

 tific American. 



The 50th anniversary number of the Scientific Ameri- 

 can, just out, is a handsome and valuable publica- 

 tion of 72 pp. It reviews the prog-ress of the past 

 50 years in the various sciences and industrial arts; and 

 the various articles by the best scientific writers of the 

 day are racily reviewed and richly illustrated. The editors 

 have accomplished the difficult task of presenting- a com- 

 pendium of information that shall be at once historical, 

 technical and popular. The story of the half century's 



