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stantl}-. These are: (1) a white fung-us; (2) a yellow fun- 

 g-us; (3) a bacillus subtiliformis; (4) a bacillus in the form 

 of a boat, staining- with difficulty; (5) a special micrococ- 

 cus, which Sabouraud designates provisionally under the 

 name of micrococcus cutis communis; (6) the spore of 

 Malassez, the flask bacillus of Unna, which he calls the 

 bacillus asciformis. These two microbes, which appear 

 to be the most important, are found in seborrhoics who are 

 not attacked with alopecia areata. No one of these mic- 

 robes would have the importance of a causal agent in the 

 disease. — Medical Record. 



Bacteria and Aerated "Water. — Professor Frankland, 

 in Nature, shows the fallaciousness of the prevalent idea 

 that by drinking aerated water safety from infectious 

 disease is insured. In experiments by Salter, the num- 

 ber of bacteria varied from 200 per cubic centimeter with 

 15 grams of carbon dioxide per liter, to 2,000 with 6 grams 

 per liter. The spores of the anthrax bacilli have been 

 found to survive 154 days in acerated water, but the chol- 

 era bacilli cannot live longer than three hours. The ty- 

 phoid bacillus requires a period of two weeks to insure its 

 destruction. The author recommends storage for a cer- 

 tain period, as time is thereby given for the destruction 

 of the pathogenic bacilli by the innocuous forms. — Medical 

 News. 



Bacteriology in Private Practice. — Jaques in a paper 

 read before the Chicago Medical Society describes a con- 

 venient way of using Loeflfler's blood serum mixture. It 

 consists in the use of small metal boxes, the size of a quar- 

 ter, and sevei'al times its thickness, in which the medium 

 is placed and sterilized as if in tubes, and sealed with para- 

 ffin. These can be carried about readily, present a con- 

 siderable surface for inoculation, and can be incubated by 

 carrying- in a pocket near the surface of the body. — Chi- 

 casro Medical Record. 



The municipality of Paris has changed the name of the 

 Boulevard de Vaugirard to that of Boulevard Pasteur. 



