1896] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 31)7 



EDITORIAL. 



Wisdom vs. Knowledge. — In the address of Rev. W. J. 

 Holhmd, which we have thoug-ht worthy of a place on pag^es 

 368-70 it will be noticed that he weclomed the Microscopists 

 to Pittsburg- as persons, "who are wiser then Solomon." 

 Being- a clerg-yman as well as a scientist he probably knows 

 the difference between Wisdom and Knowledge and would 

 readih' admit that he used the word "wiser" improperly. 



No one can deny that our scientists have very much 

 more knowledg-e of nature than Solomon possessed. Dr. 

 Holland well illustrates this fact. But knowledg-e is not 

 wisdom and man}- of the learned men of today are notor- 

 iously lacking- in wisdom. Many of the scientists deny 

 the possibility of that element which disting-uishes wisdom 

 from knowledge. Hence their frequent use of the two 

 words as synomvmous — a most grievous fault. These 

 are not the columns in which to describe the characters 

 of wisdom. Suffice the protest and statement that there 

 is a g-ulf between wisdom and knowledge. The micro- 

 scopists cannot be flattered properly with having- a tenth 

 of the wisdom of Solomon, but they have vast stores of 

 knowledg-e which he did not possess. 



MICROSCOPICAL MANIPULATION. 



Smegma Bacilli and Tubercle Bacilli. — Mendelsohn 

 reports a case in w^hich the patient's urine contained much 

 pus and g-ranular detritus. The urine from the rig^ht 

 ureter was clear, while cystoscopy demonstrated that the 

 pus and detritus escaped from the left ureter. Tubercle 

 bacilli were found in the urine. Nevertheless, the extir- 

 pation revealed a stone in the diseased kidney and no 

 evidence of tuberculosis. 



Von Leyden calls attention to the frequency with which 

 the bacillus tuberculosis has been confused with the smeg-ma 

 bacillus, especially as the two have cei'tain morphological 

 resemblances and their staining- reactions are not dissimilar 



