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[November, 1890. 
porcelain crucible, and injected into the subdural 
space of a healthy rabbit. The animal remained 
perfectly well for twenty-one days, and then de- 
veloped the characteristic paralysis of hydrophobia, 
commencing in the posterior extremities and rap- 
idly progressing, until death occurred from paralysis 
of the muscles of respiration. A second inoculated 
rabbit died in the same manner after reftiaining 
perfectly well for twenty-three days. The classical 
course of the disease in the rabbits proved conclu- 
sively that they died from the virus of hydrophobia. 
Bacteria in Hailstones. — The Johns Ifopkins 
ITospHal Bulletin for May, 1890, records some obser- 
vations by A. C. Abbott upon the bacteria found in 
the interior of large hailstones which fell during the 
storm of April 26, iSgo. Care was taken to exclude 
all organisms except those brought down from the 
altitude where the hail was formed. The nuriiber 
of organisms observed ranged from 400 to 700 to 
the cubic centimetre. The majority represented 
only a single species, — a short, thin, oval bacillus, 
— though several other undetermined species were 
observed. These observations suggest possibilities. 
Medical men are often asked to account for the 
origin of sporadic cases of a disease well known to 
be contagious, — scarlatina, for example, — where the 
source of infection is impossible to trace. A cyclone 
may have swept through an infected region ; clouds 
of dust containing the bacillus of the disease in 
question may have been carried to a height, borne 
along for hundreds of miles, encapsuled in hail- 
stones or rain-drops, and brought again to earth in 
a location favorable to their growth. — Am. Micro- 
scopical Journal. 
Heart Disease Caused by Fright. — Dr. Lee 
reports {Lancet) a case of heart disease resulting 
from emotional cause. The patient was a nurse. 
One day, when sitting in the nursery with the 
children, their father came into the room in a state 
of mental derangement, and seized the youngest 
child with the apparent intention of throwing it out 
of the window. The nurse was so frightened that 
she could not move or speak, and immediately after 
this her heart troubles began. The case resembled 
one of Grave's disease so far as the cardiac symp- 
toms were concerned. She could not walk without 
distress from shortness of breath. Her pulse was 
generally 140. If she got up to walk it was 150. 
Digitalis had no effect, but opium had a slight effect 
in quieting the heart. The case was considered 
incurable. 
An Unusual Case of Atrophy of the Skin is 
the title of a paper {Alien, and Xeu.) by Dr. Ohr- 
mann-Dumesnil. The patient was a child who had 
some years previously sustained a severe burn on 
the anterior aspect of the right wrist. The right 
arm presented atrophic spots situated on the ante- 
rior surface of the arm and fore arm, and over the 
brachial and radial nerves. These spots were five 
in number, distinctly depressed, and were paler 
than the normal skin surrounding them. The skin 
of these spots was much thinner than in the healthy 
parts. There was marked atrophy of the muscles 
of the arm and hand. The doctor attributes the 
atrophy of the skin to the injury to the radial nerve 
produced by the burn. 
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