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this method in twenty cases, and believes that the lluid is 

 easily and quickly absorbed. The bowel is tirst washed 

 out by a simple enema, and then by means of an oi'dinary 

 enema syring-e and a g^um-elastic catheter of medium size 

 and about twenty centimeters long^, the serum is intro- 

 duced into the rectum. The method causes neither pain 

 nor any unpleasant efifects. The curative effect seems to 

 be as certain as when the antitoxin isg-iven by hypodermic 

 injection. There is no need, so far as Dr. Chantemesse's 

 experience g"oes, for any increase of dose when the serum 

 is administered by the rectum. In severe cases of erysip- 

 elas he has injected into the rectum 200 to 300 cubic centi- 

 meters of the Marmorek serum. This quaintity was readily 

 absorbed and caused no ill effects. In applying- this serum 

 locally he adds live parts of lanolin to one part of the serum; 

 pain, swelling- and redness are thereby g-reatly reduced. — 

 Ex. 



Suppurative Nephritis. — V. Wunschheim (Ztschr. fur 

 Heilk., bd. xv, pp. 287-401), from a study of cases of sup- 

 purative nephritis, concludes as follows: 



1. Suppurative pyelonephritis is caused in theg-reat ma- 

 jority of cases by the bacillus coli communis, and in a mi- 

 nority of cases by the proteus vulg-aris or by the common 

 pyog-enic cocci. 2. In cases caused by the common pyo- 

 g-enic cocci, pyemia almost invariably supervenes. 3. The 

 pyelonephritis caused by the staphylocci and strep- 

 tococci differs not only in the subsequent pyemia, but also 

 in a g-reater destruction of tissue and an absence of local 

 proliferation. 4. It is not probable that typical ascending- 

 pyelonephritis can also become descending-. 



MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIEIs. 



American Postal Microscopical Club. 

 During- the season now closing-, the circuits have re- 

 ceived about the usual number of boxes, including- those 

 now in transit; and, notwithstanding- the g-reat and partly 

 unavoidable difficulties of the case, this service at- 



