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made clinical observations with the use of this drug and, accord- 
ing to his results, it is of most extraordinary value in the treat- 
ment of various forms of cardiac trouble. Doses of 0.1 gramme 
of the sulphate of sparteine when given to a patient produced no 
disturbance of the digestive or nervous system; its effects seemed 
to be limited to the heart. In fibrous cardiac degeneration a 
single dose rendered the pulse-tracing normal for the period of 
three or four days. In irregular rhythm of the heart-beat due to 
insufficiency of the auriculo-ventricular valves or to contraction of 
their orifices, the drug brings back the normal rhythm. Three 
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igitalis, and its tonic action is very much more prompt, pro- 
nounced and lasting. 2, Asa regulator of the rhythm of heart- 
beat, it stands unrivaled. 3. It causes acceleration of the pulse, 
and approaches belladonna in usefulness where need of the latter 
drug is indicated— Comptes Rendus, T. ci, p. 1046, 
Tar Microse or Hypropuosia.—M. Fol has found in sections 
of the spinal cord and brain of animals dead from rabies, a micro- 
coccus which he thinks is peculiar to that disease, and probably 
its etiological factor. The fresh tissue is hardened in a solution of 
per, and the sections are stained with hematoxylin. The micro- 
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` Tue TRANSFORMATION OF PEPTONES BY THE LIVER, AND THE 
: me ba OF THE SUGAR IN THE BLoop To THE NATURE OF THE 
; As previously reported in these pages, Professor 
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